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Edward Kennedy „Duke“ Ellington bol americký džezový komponista, pianista a bandleader. Zaraďuje sa medzi najväčších amerických skladateľov 20. storočia. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. apríl 1899 – 24. máj 1974   •   Ďalšie mená Ellington Dyuk
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“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

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).

“Every man prays in his own language.”

Section title and eponymous song of A Concert of Sacred Music (1965).