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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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Duke Ellington
Age: 75 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 29
Died: 1974
Died: May 24
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Washington
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Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Edward K. Ellington
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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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!
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I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Simplicity is a most complex form
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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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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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