There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
DUKE ELLINGTON
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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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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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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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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’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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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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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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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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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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