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Jazz today, as always in the ...

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

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Everyone prays in their own l...

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

The most important thing I lo...

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

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If you have a great band with...

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Hurry, get on board, it's com...

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

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A Satin Doll is a woman who i...

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

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Create, and be true to yourse...

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

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The word [jazz] never lost it...

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.

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I don’t believe in categories...

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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Somehow I suspect that if Sha...

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

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The Europeans who went to Afr...

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

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There are simply two kinds of...

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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The common root, of course, c...

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.

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It is becoming increasingly d...

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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Put it this way: Jazz is a go...

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

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A man is a god in ruins. ...

A man is a god in ruins.

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People do not retire. They ar...

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

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There are two kinds of worrie...

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

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You've got to find some way o...

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

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Gray skies are just clouds pa...

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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