If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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