Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
DUKE ELLINGTONGray skies are just clouds passing over.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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There is no art without intention.
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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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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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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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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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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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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