There is no art when one does something without intention.
DUKE ELLINGTONThere are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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.
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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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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 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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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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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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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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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There is no art without intention.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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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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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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