"Music is the tonal reflection of beauty." — Duke Ellington

"Music is the tonal reflection of beauty."

— Duke Ellington

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71 Quotes by Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington has 71 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to…
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to…
There is no art when one does something without intention.
I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our…
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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