Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
DUKE ELLINGTONI don’t need time, I need a deadline.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern’ art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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 are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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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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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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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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The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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