Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

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• Duke Ellington:

  My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

• Duke Ellington:

  There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

• Duke Ellington:

  By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associ

• Duke Ellington:

  It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

• Duke Ellington:

  A man is a god in ruins.

• Duke Ellington:

  Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a litt

• Duke Ellington:

  You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

• Duke Ellington:

  Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

• Duke Ellington:

  The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

• Duke Ellington:

  I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.