A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTONBy and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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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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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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