There is no art when one does something without intention.
DUKE ELLINGTONOf the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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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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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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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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I don’t need time, I need a deadline.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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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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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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