There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time, I need a deadline.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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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 no art when one does something without intention.
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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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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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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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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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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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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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