More from Duke Ellington

  1. I like any and all of my associations with music- writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience…
  2. I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
  3. I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.
  4. I'm a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle.
  5. 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 are referring to cate…
  6. I'm the world's worst disciplinarian. There's too much responsibility in being a leader! You have to have the dignity and authority of a le…
  7. I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.
  8. Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or y…

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