Ellington Music Quotes
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Ellington Music Quotes & Sayings
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
— Duke Ellington
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
— 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!
— Duke Ellington
I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.
— Ayad Allawi
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
— Duke Ellington
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
— Duke Ellington
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
— Duke Ellington
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
— 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.
— Duke Ellington
It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out
— Keiichi Tsuchiya
There is no art without intention.
— Duke Ellington
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
— Duke Ellington
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
— Duke Ellington
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did.
— Duke Ellington
Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty.
— Rudyard Kipling
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
— Rainn Wilson
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
— Ray Charles
My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!
— Rodney Dangerfield
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
— Duke Ellington
New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.
— Duke Ellington
Everyone needs someone to blame.
— Neal Shusterman
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
— Duke Ellington
There's not a boy alive like the one in my dreams.
— Myra McEntire
