"Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to……" — Duke Ellington
"Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem."
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71 Quotes by Duke Ellington
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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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