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Musical Quotes by Duke Ellington
- In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I…
- A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
- The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
- Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
More Musical Quotes
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. — Amy Adams
- Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth… — Antonio Banderas
- I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one… — Todd Barry
- Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. — Mikhail Baryshnikov