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Duke Ellington

Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Missing Play
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Financial Loss Musical Profit
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Lazy Limitation Procrastination
There is no art without intention.
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Art Creation Creativity Intention One Liner
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Creation Instinct Past Thinking
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Art Dangerous Oneself Yourself
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Alive Fans Himself Suspect
New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Hell Music Time
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Loud Myself Open
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Bad Category Goodness Listening Stop
You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Finding Silence Way Yourself
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Himself Important Known Listening Musician
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Art Interest Money Music
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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Hear Myself Performance
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Live Music Myself Occupation Profession
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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Epitome Music Original Standard

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