Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
DUKE ELLINGTONI merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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’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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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
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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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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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