You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTONDancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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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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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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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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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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There is no art without intention.
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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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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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