A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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There is no art without intention.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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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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The artist must say it without saying it.
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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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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My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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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 fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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