The artist must say it without saying it.
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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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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