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Every man prays in his own language.
Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington
Age: 75 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 29
Died: 1974
Died: May 24
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Bandleader
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Conductor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Arranger
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
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Washington
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Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Edward K. 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.
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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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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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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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.
Duke Ellington
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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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
Duke Ellington
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
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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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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.
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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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If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
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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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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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What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
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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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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
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.
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A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
Duke Ellington
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
Duke Ellington
