Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
DUKE ELLINGTONEverybody 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.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
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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 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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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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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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A goal is a dream with a finish 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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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