"Create, and be true to yourself, and depend……" — Duke Ellington
"Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste."
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71 Quotes by Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington has 71 quotes on this site.
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I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to…
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Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
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I don't need time, I need a deadline.
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Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
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I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
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The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to…
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our…
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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