Simplicity is a most complex form.
DUKE ELLINGTONYou have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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There is no art without intention.
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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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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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