You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTONCritics have their purposes, 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 they did.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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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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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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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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