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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington also known simply as the Duke, was an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader.

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  • There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both.
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  • A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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  • Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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  • By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
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  • Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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  • I live with music.
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  • I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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  • I'm a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle.
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  • Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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  • My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
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  • Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
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  • Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
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  • The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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  • There is no art when one does something without intention.
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  • You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
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  • Playing "Bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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  • Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

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