Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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 goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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Every man prays in his own language.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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