Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie...… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you,… — Kenny Burrell Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
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