Problems are chances for us to do our best.
DUKE ELLINGTONSomehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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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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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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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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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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