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Duke Ellington [1899-1974] American

Rank: 101
Musician, Composer

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

Art, Attitude, Best, Chance, Famous, Leadership, Love, Music, Nature

Quote	Tags	Rank
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.	Best, Chance	101
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.	Art	102
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.	Attitude, Leadership	103
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.		104
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.		105
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.	Nature	106
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.		107
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.	Famous	108
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.	Love	109
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.	Music	110
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.		111
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.		112
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.		113
People do not retire. They are retired by others.		114
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.		115
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.		116
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.		117
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.		118
A man is a god in ruins.		119

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