About Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".
More quotations from Duke Ellington
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Sometimes it's better not to look back.
—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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