Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
DUKE ELLINGTONIt don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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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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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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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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A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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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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The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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