If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
DUKE ELLINGTONMusic is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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