Duke Ellington Two Quotations

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.