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Rick Perry is now saying he thinks that Barack Obama's birth certificate is fake. I think Perry may have faked his driver's license.
— David Letterman
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;
— Alexandre Dumas
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know?
— Mike Tyson
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
— Duke Ellington
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
— Duke Ellington
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!
— Duke Ellington
Do not just accept but dare to question.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
— Duke Ellington
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
— Duke Ellington
They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.
— Maria McErlane
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
— Duke Ellington
There is no art without intention.
— Duke Ellington
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
— Duke Ellington
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'
— Ellen DeGeneres
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
— Duke Ellington
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
— Duke Ellington
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did.
— Duke Ellington
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
— Duke Ellington
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
— Ray Charles
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
— Duke Ellington
New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.
— Duke Ellington
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
— Duke Ellington
You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.
— Duke Ellington
This was one of those days--a day when you wished you had no ears and no skin with which to feel everything.
— Benny Lindelauf