Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
DUKE ELLINGTONBe a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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The artist must say it without saying it.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.
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Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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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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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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There is no art without intention.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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