Problems are chances for us to do our best.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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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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The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
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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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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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