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Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
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
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Problems are chances for us to do our best.
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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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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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
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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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People do not retire. They are retired by others.
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I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.
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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.
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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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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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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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Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
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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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