133 Quotes by Duke Ellington

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.

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

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.

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Problems are chances for us to do our best.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.