If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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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 indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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There is no art without intention.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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On 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.
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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