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
DUKE ELLINGTONA goal is a dream with a finish line.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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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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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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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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Every man prays in his own language.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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