There is no art when one does something without intention.
DUKE ELLINGTON
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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Dancing 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.
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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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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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