A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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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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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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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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Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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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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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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