Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
DUKE ELLINGTONThe artist must say it without saying it.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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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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