Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellingtonwas an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth29 April 1899
CountryUnited States of America
Duke Ellington quotes about
music love-is proof
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.
numbers never-quit never-forget
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
listening categories music-is
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.
music together use
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
dance thinking play
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.
music lying tin-pan-alley
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
way
You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
music important looks
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
music mean swings
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
music girl piano
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
reflection music-is
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
simplicity form complexes
Simplicity is a most complex form
music art intention
There is no art without intention.
two numbers
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.