Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
DUKE ELLINGTONA musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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 simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed.
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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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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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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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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