Duke Ellington Quotes

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington

Love, Nice, Supreme

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

Music, Wise, Play

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington

Clouds, Passing, Gray

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

Energy, Takes, Took

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

Best, Problem, Chance

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

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.
Duke Ellington

Time, Two, Spend

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Duke Ellington

Leadership, Attitude, Enough

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

Art, Dangerous, Ceases

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

Large, Jazz, Daughter

A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington

Best, Problem, Chance

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington

Life, Understand, Learned

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington

Playing, Missing, Scrabble

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

Famous, Young, Fate

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

Music, Money, Art

A man is a god in ruins.
Duke Ellington

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington

Someone, Done, Sometimes

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington

Play, Act, Commit

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

Saying, Knees, Loudly

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

Others, Retire, Retired

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Nationality: American

Born: April 29, 1899

Died: May 24, 1974

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