A Quote by Lawrence Welk

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

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Lawrence Welk
American - Musician
March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Wynton Marsalis

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Miles Davis

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

B. B. King

I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.

Maynard Ferguson

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

Ed Smith

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

Clark Terry

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

Nat Hentoff

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

Bryan Ferry

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Ruth Brown

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

Woody Allen

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.