A goal is a dream with a finish line.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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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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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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Everybody 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.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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There is no art without intention.
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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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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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