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
DUKE ELLINGTONSing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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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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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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