If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.” — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
