"Music, of course, is what I hear and……" — Duke Ellington
"Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion."
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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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More Compulsion Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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