The artist must say it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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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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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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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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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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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
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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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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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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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