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Famous Duke Ellington Quotes
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.”
“There is no art when one does something without intention.”
Source: Music is my mistress
“There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.”
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
“The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?”
Source: Music is my mistress