QUOTES by Duke Ellington
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"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."
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"I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son."
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"Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did."
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"Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves."
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"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!"
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"The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse."
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"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."
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"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."
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"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."
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"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 in their mattresses."
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"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."
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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."
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"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."
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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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"There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1."
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