The artist must say it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTONIf 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.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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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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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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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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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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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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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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