There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time, I need a deadline.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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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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My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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