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.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt 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
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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There is no art without intention.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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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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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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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