Quote #11

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.

More from Duke Ellington

  1. By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
  2. Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
  3. Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
  4. I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.
  5. I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to cate…
  6. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
  7. I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.
  8. There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both.

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