What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
DUKE ELLINGTONA musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
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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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Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
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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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I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.
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Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
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