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
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
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.
music art intention
There is no art without intention.
music daughter mother
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
music dream goal
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
music mean doe
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
new-orleans trying too-late
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.
music children mind
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
music feel-good jazz-and-life
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
music play mistress
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
music thinking should-have
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.