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.
DUKE ELLINGTONLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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 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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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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