Quotes with ellington

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• A problem is your chance to do your best.

  Duke Ellington
  American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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• As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

  B. B. King
  American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington
  American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

  Duke Ellington
  American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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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
  French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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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
  French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• everything
• lunceford
• concerts
• smartly
• dressed
• passing

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