Top 31 George Duke Quotes
#1. I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
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#2. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.
George MacDonald
#4. Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.
Al Green
#6. Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.
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#7. At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.
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#9. Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.
George Duke
#10. A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
David Lloyd George
#11. The hell I care with your flavor of the month?' Sabi ko. Yeah, yun yung girlfiend niya which I consider his flavor of the month. Or should I say, flavor of the week? Ang bilis niya kasing magpalit ng babae, well I'm the only exception! Hahaha!" - Arkisha
Ruth Mendoza
#12. The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.
George Duke
#14. I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!
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#15. I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.
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#16. I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
George Shearing
#17. I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.
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#18. I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
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#19. We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.
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#20. I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated
Mukhtar Ma'i
#21. I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.
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#22. Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
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#23. In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.
Noam Chomsky
#24. The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
James Russell Lowell
#25. At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.
George Duke
#26. Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
May Sarton
#27. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#28. I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
George Duke
#29. I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.
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#30. When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
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#31. I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
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