A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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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
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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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