Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
DUKE ELLINGTONMusic is the tonal reflection of beauty.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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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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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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