Quotes from Duke Ellington
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
- Duke Ellington
There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
- Duke Ellington
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
- 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.
- Duke Ellington
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
- Duke Ellington
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
- Duke Ellington
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
- Duke Ellington
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
- Duke Ellington
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
- Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
- Duke Ellington
Every man prays in his own language.
- Duke Ellington
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
- Duke Ellington