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ellington Quotes and Quotations
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I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. Mose Allison | top
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A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. David Amram | top
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I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. Bob Balaban | top
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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. Ruth Brown | top
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I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend. Frank Gifford | top
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We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father. Frank Gifford | top
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. Norman Granz | top
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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. Norman Granz | top
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. John Keegan | top
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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 | top
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. Steve Lacy | top
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. Abbey Lincoln | top
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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. Joni Mitchell | top
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I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. George Shearing | top
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops. Ed Smith | top
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt | top
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The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52. Boris Vian | top
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. Boris Vian | top
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Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. Lawrence Welk | top
