Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
DUKE ELLINGTONMusic is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
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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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The artist must say it without saying it.
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