Quote by Duke Ellington Download Open image “Playing op is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.” — Duke Ellington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
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We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Life was so much easier when i's were just a vowel. Now I have to be concerned with Tunes, Touch, n Pads..... this could… — Tina Simpson Copy Share Image
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less. — Chris Young 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
