I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
DUKE ELLINGTONCreate, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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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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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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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 merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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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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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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