Duke Ellington Quotes - Page 2

• I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Needs, Jazz

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

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  Thoughtful, Past, Matter

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks

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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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  Art, Want, Jazz

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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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  Music, Lying, Tin Pan Alley

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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  Music, Failure, Adversity

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

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  Sweet, Littles, Dirt

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• Los músicos sabios son los que tocan lo que dominan.

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  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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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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  Beauty, Dolls, Satin

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• Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

  Duke Ellington

  Canada, Today, Brainwash

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Music, Together, Band

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• There is no art without intention.

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  Music, Art, Jazz

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• Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

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  Wings, Waiting, Sound

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

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  Music, Love Is, Proof

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• Sin embargo, cada vez que los hijos de Dios han desechado el miedo en pos de la honestidad -intentando comunicarse a sí mismos, comprendidos o no-, se han producido milagros.

  Duke Ellington

  Children, Honesty, Miracle

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.371, Oxford Paperbacks

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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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  Music, Art, Gone

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• My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another
  human being; blessedness comes from God.

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  Mother, Blessed, Taken

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

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  Music, Mean, Doe

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• New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

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  Hell, Stravinsky, New Music

  1970 Quoted in D Jewell Duke (1977).

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• Las personas no se jubilan. Son jubilados por otros.

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  People, Age, Aging

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• En general, el jazz siempre ha sido el tipo de hombre con el que no querrías que se relacionara tu hija.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Daughter, Mother

  "At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene". Book by Nat Hentoff, 2010.

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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. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

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  Play, Two, Mistress

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• 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

  Music, Children, Mind

  "Music Is My Mistress". Book by Duke Ellington, 1973.

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• Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

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  Survival, Selfishness, Essentials

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Believe, Kind, Problem

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• El jazz es un buen barómetro de la libertad.

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  Jazz, Barometer

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.295, Oxford Paperbacks

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