Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
DUKE ELLINGTONA musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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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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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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Simplicity is a most complex form.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
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Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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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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You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying 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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