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Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited. — Duke Ellington

Problems are chances for us to do our best. — Duke Ellington

Simplicity is a most complex form — Duke Ellington

There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
— Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees. — Duke Ellington

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. — Duke Ellington

A goal is a dream with a finish line. — Duke Ellington

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it. — Duke Ellington

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. — Duke Ellington

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. — David Amram

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. — Clark Terry

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? — Duke Ellington

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare. — Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. — Duke Ellington

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky. — Duke Ellington

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. — Duke Ellington

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. — Duke Ellington

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". — Duke Ellington

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. — Duke Ellington

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. — Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. — Lawrence Welk

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. — Duke Ellington

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well. — Bryan Ferry

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem. — Duke Ellington

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington

You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker. — Duke Ellington

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything? — Duke Ellington

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste. — Duke Ellington

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else. — Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis

People do not retire. They are retired by others. — Duke Ellington

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. — Steve Lacy

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. — Duke Ellington