Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
DUKE ELLINGTON
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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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.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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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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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Every man prays in his own language.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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