Duke Ellington Quotes

22 Duke Ellington quotes by 20 unique authors

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced… — Dave Brubeck
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't… — Miles Davis
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought… — Boris Vian
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your… — Kenny Burrell
There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong.… — Randy Weston
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. — Ruth Brown
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. — Norman Granz
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. — David Amram
...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in… — Jo Nesbo
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a… — Abbey Lincoln
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a… — Mose Allison
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. — Toru Takemitsu
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a… — Charlie Day
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. — Steve Lacy
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. — Lawrence Welk
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's… — Stevie Wonder
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. — Clark Terry
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. — B B King
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New… — Steve Lacy
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We… — Ed Smith
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that… — George Shearing

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