I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
DUKE ELLINGTONA goal is a dream with a finish line.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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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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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 most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
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I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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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 don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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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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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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