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Top 60 Duke Ellington Quotes (2024 Update)

Duke Ellington Quote: “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline!”
Duke Ellington Quote: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Simplicity is a most complex form.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “There is no art without intention.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “People do not retire. They are retired by others.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “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.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “You’ve got to find a way of saying it without saying it.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Every man prays in his own language.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “I don’t need time, I need a deadline.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “If it sounds good, it IS good.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “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.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it’s bad.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Roaming through the jungle of “Ohs” and “Ahs” searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “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.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.”
Duke Ellington Quote: “New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.”
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