Important Quote by Duke Ellington Download Open image “The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.” — Duke Ellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Important things Jazz Jazz music Know how Knows Looks Music Musician
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound. — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need. — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good… — Duke Ellington Copy Share
“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
