People do not retire. They are retired by others.
DUKE ELLINGTONJazz is a good barometer of freedom.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
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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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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
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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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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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Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
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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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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Of the One O’Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: “I wish it were mine”.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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