Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
DUKE ELLINGTONIf it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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There is no art without intention.
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I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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