Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
DUKE ELLINGTONArt is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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