“Um problema é uma chance para você fazer o seu melhor.”
Variante: Problemas são chances para nós de fazermos nosso melhor.
Duke Ellington: 18 citações4 Curtidas
Duke Ellington Frases famosas
“Todo homem reza em seu próprio idioma.”
Every man prays in his own language.
Título da canção de mesmo nome de A Concert of Sacred Music (1965)
“Ele nasceu pobre, morreu rico e nunca feriu qualquer um no caminho.”
He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone on the way
Duke Ellington sobre Louis Armstrong como citado in: Jet - Volume 46,Edições 1-14 - Página 153, Johnson Publishing Company, 1974
Duke Ellington: Frases em inglês
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Fonte: Music is My Mistress
Program notes for A Concert of Sacred Music http://earshot.org/Events/sacred.html (1965).
Nat Hentoff, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene (2011).
“If it sounds good, it IS good.”
J.D. Moore's Ten Commandments for The Studio
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).
“It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.”
On jazz New York Herald Tribune (9 July 1961).
Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal (1962) Reproduced in The Duke Ellington Reader, ISBN 978-0-19-509391-9.
“Every man prays in his own language.”
Section title and eponymous song of A Concert of Sacred Music (1965).