Duke Ellington: Zitate auf Englisch
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Quelle: Music is My Mistress
Program notes for A Concert of Sacred Music http://earshot.org/Events/sacred.html (1965).
Nat Hentoff, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene (2011).
“If it sounds good, it IS good.”
J.D. Moore's Ten Commandments for The Studio
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).
“It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.”
On jazz New York Herald Tribune (9 July 1961).
Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal (1962) Reproduced in The Duke Ellington Reader, ISBN 978-0-19-509391-9.
“Every man prays in his own language.”
Section title and eponymous song of A Concert of Sacred Music (1965).
