Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
DUKE ELLINGTONOn 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.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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