Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.
DUKE ELLINGTONEveryone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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There is no art without intention.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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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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My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of – or reincarnated from – royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.
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