Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Duke Ellington Quotes Click here for Duke Ellington books "If it sounds good, it is good." "Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing." "Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young." "Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' 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." "There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both." "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it." "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with." "I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher." "I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again." "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." "There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone." "I’m a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle." "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master." "You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it." |
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