What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
DUKE ELLINGTONThere are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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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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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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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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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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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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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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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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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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