Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
DUKE ELLINGTONA musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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