Duke Ellington Quotes
"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Attitude)
"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Time)
"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Musicians, Play)
"Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing."
- Duke Ellington
"People do not retire. They are retired by others."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: People)
"On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Life, People, Bible, Word)
"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Now, Saying)
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Saying)
"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Money, Music, Art, Interest, Will)
"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Love)
"It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Act, Murder, Play)
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Clouds)
"Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did."
- Duke Ellington
"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Daughter, Jazz, Man, Want)
"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Art, Want)
"A problem is your chance to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Chance)
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Chance)
"A man is a god in ruins."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: God, Man)
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
- Duke Ellington
(Related: Energy)