How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1. - Duke Ellington
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
- 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! - 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!
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. - Duke Ellington
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. - Duke Ellington
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else. - Duke Ellington
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
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
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.
A goal is a dream with a finish line. - Duke Ellington
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
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 indepen… - 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 indepen…
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