Duke Ellington Quotes - Page 4

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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Missing You, Playing Jazz

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

  Duke Ellington

  White, House, Wish

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  New York, Dollars, Cadillacs

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes
  in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

  Duke Ellington

  Eye, Arms, Mines

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

  Duke Ellington

  Musician, Problem, Made

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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Jazz, Epitome

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