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
kinds spend time worries
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.
agreeable child jungle life mind roaming searching thirst
Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" 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.
american-musician chance problem
A problem is your chance to do your best.
american-musician art
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
american-musician
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
music art opportunity
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
inspirational life positive
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
music country expression
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
dog children honesty
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
music occupation live-by
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
prayer doe language
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
music two jazz
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
canada today brainwash
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.
rocks roots way
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.