My attitude is never to be satisfied. Never enough. Never.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
All true, especially the last.
Duke says more in these 3 quotes than most will get from a college education
Duke Ellington n’est pas seulement un immense musicien!