There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
DUKE ELLINGTONA problem is a chance for you to do your best.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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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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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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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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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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