Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
DUKE ELLINGTONPeople do not retire. They are retired by others.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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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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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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The artist must say it without saying it.
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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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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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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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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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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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