I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
DUKE ELLINGTON
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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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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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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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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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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There is no art without intention.
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