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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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
Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
Duke Ellington
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington
A man is a god in ruins.
Duke Ellington
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
Duke Ellington
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Duke Ellington
A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington
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.
Duke Ellington
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
Duke Ellington
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for your to do your best.
Duke Ellington
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
Duke Ellington
There are simply two kinds of music good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good its successful if it doesnt it has failed.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
Duke Ellington
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
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.
Duke Ellington
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
Victor Garber
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
Loni Anderson
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
Burt Ward
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
Jessica Lange
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
Boris Kodjoe
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Kathleen Turner
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
Derek Luke
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
Marilyn Horne
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
Nancy Sinatra
It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.
Teena Marie
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
Tippi Hedren
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith
For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.
Alison Lohman
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Magic Johnson
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.
Graham Coxon
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
Lorna Luft
