Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellingtonwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth29 April 1899
CountryUnited States of America
art art-and-music gone
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
music girl piano
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
inspiring music wise
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
reflection music-is
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
way
You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
inspirational two worry
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.
years san-francisco community
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world
music important looks
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
music lying tin-pan-alley
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
music together use
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
listening categories music-is
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.
music daughter mother
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
music love-is proof
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 you haven't; there's no proof of it.
simplicity form complexes
Simplicity is a most complex form