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"If it sounds good, it IS good." Duke Ellington Quotes  
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington also known simply as the Duke, was an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader.

	There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both.
	A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
	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.
	Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
	I live with music.
	I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
	I'm a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle.
	Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
	My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
	Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
	Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
	The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
	There is no art when one does something without intention.
	You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
	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.

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