I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
DUKE ELLINGTONI merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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I 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.
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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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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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