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Duke Ellington Quote: “Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.”

51. “Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world – one of the really urbane communities in the United States – one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world.”

52. “San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world – one of the really urbane communities in the United States – one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.”

53. “New music? Hell, there’s been no new music since Stravinsky.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “Yet, every time God’s children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”

54. “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

Duke Ellington Quote: “There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.”

55. “There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King’s son.”

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

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.”

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

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “It’s like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something.”

58. “It’s like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.”

59. “Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.”

60. “The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “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.”

61. “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

Duke Ellington Quote: “My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?”

62. “My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “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”.”

63. “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”.”

— Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Quote: “Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

64. “Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

— Duke Ellington

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