Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
DUKE ELLINGTONA goal is a dream with a finish line.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don’t dance, or who never did dance, don’t really understand the beat. I know musicians who don’t and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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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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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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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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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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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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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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I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
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