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The wise musicians are those w...

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Gray skies are just clouds pas...

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Love is supreme and unconditio...

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

The wise musicians are those w...

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

A problem is a chance for you ...

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

I merely took the energy it ta...

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

There are two kinds of worries...

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.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Critics have their purposes, a...

Critics have their purposes, 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 they did.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Fate is being kind to me. Fate...

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Now I can say loudly and openl...

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

People do not retire. They are...

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

It's like an act of murder-you...

It's like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

It is becoming increasingly di...

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

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Roaming through the jungle of ...

Roaming through the jungle of 'Ohs' and 'Ahs' searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Music, of course, is what I he...

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

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

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.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

There are two kinds of music. ...

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Love is indescribable and unco...

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.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

Playing 'bop' is like playing ...

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

If it sounds good and feels go...

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Duke Ellington 99 quotes

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