A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTONSelf-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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The artist must say it without saying it.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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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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