Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
DUKE ELLINGTONNew music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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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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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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