Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
DUKE ELLINGTONCreate, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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 fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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