A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
DUKE ELLINGTONA problem is a chance for you to do your best.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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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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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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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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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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