I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
DUKE ELLINGTONMusic is the tonal reflection of beauty.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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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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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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