The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
DUKE ELLINGTONSimplicity is a most complex form.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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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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Every man prays in his own language.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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