black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

Duke Ellington

Problems are chances for us to do our best.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Best Chance Ourselves Problem
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Dreams Finish Goal
Critics 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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Carry Criticism Focus Purpose Thinking
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Association Kind Man Yourself
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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Appearance Interest Myself Realize Right
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
DUKE ELLINGTON

Money Myself Pay Togetherness
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.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Blessing Human Inheritance Mom Myself Royalty
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Be Yourself Effort Hard Work Inspirational Self Love
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Limitation Love
Simplicity is a most complex form.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Complex Form Simplicity
The artist must say it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Artist Language
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
DUKE ELLINGTON

Important Meaning Music Yourself
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Ourselves Selfish Survive Virtue
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Death Hide Place Walk
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Doll Herself Pretty Woman
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Lazy Limitation Procrastination

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Duke Ellington Quotes