You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
DUKE ELLINGTONCreate, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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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 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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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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 are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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 merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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