Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
DUKE ELLINGTONYou have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.
More Duke Ellington Quotes
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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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Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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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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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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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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It’s like an act of murder – you play with intent to commit something.
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