A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
DUKE ELLINGTONThe artist must say it without saying it.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of 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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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