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Duke Ellington Inspirational Quotes (87)

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The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
Duke of Wellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Duke of Wellington
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
Duke of Wellington
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Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
Duke Ellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
Duke Ellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
Duke of Wellington
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I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
Duke Ellington
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My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Duke of Wellington
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Habit is ten times nature.
Duke of Wellington
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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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?
Duke Ellington
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Publish and be damned.
Duke of Wellington
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
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I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
Duke of Wellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
Duke of Wellington
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
Duke Ellington
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
Duke of Wellington
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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
Duke of Wellington
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It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington
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