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Jazz Arranger Inspirational Quotes (37)

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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
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
Duke Ellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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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
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
Duke Ellington
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
Duke Ellington
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Simplicity is a most complex form
Duke Ellington
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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
Duke Ellington
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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.
Duke Ellington
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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
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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
Duke Ellington
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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
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Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
Duke Ellington
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
Duke Ellington
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington
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Every man prays in his own language.
Duke Ellington
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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
Duke Ellington
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
Duke Ellington
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
Duke Ellington
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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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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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