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

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Nat Hentoff
American - Novelist
June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017

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

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

Wynton Marsalis

I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream - the perfect life. Madonna Quotes.

Unknown

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

Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will talk to and work with anyone else who shares my belief that it is our goal and destiny to expand life and civilization into space.

Rick Tumlinson

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

I really loved all my time at this university and so I hope it's seen how much I appreciate Duke. Not only playing basketball for Duke, but being a student at Duke, and I really am thankful for my time here.

Grayson Allen

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

John Fugelsang

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Jo Nesbo

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

Clark Terry

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

Ruth Brown

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

Miles Davis

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

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

Bryan Ferry

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

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