Quote of the Day

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

-- Duke Ellington

Quote of the Day

... we would like very much to mention the four major freedoms that my friend and writing-and-arranging composer, Billy Strayhorn, lived by and enjoyed.  That was freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity; freedom from fear of possibly doing something that may help someone else more than it would him; and freedom from the kind of pride that could make a man feel that he is better than his brother.

-- Duke Ellington, upon receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Quote of the Day

Jazz is music; swing is business.

-- Duke Ellington

Quote of the Day

You have to stop listening in categories.  The music is either good or it's bad.

-- Duke Ellington