A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Every man prays in his own language.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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