A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
DUKE ELLINGTONThere is no art without intention.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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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 is no art without intention.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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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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