Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
DUKE ELLINGTONGray skies are just clouds passing over.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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There is no art without intention.
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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The artist must say 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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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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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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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