Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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 fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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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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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 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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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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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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