There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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