Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
DUKE ELLINGTONI 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.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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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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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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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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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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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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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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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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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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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