I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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The artist must say it without saying it.
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The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
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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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There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit. Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
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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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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
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New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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