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"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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!"
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?"
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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!"
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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"
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"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 music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines."
Quote by -E. B. White
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."
Quote by -Edgar Watson Howe
"Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy."
Quote by -Edna St. Vincent Millay
"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."
Quote by -James A. Baldwin
"I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around."
Quote by -G-Eazy
"In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them."
Quote by -G-Eazy
"I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff."
Quote by -G-Eazy