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
american-musician art
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
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There is no art when one does something without intention.
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
artist
The artist must say it without saying it.
music art intention
There is no art without intention.
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
kinds spend time worries
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.
american-musician
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
white house wish
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".
kings son night
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.
chance problem
Problems are chances for us to do our best.