It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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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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