Duke Ellington Jazz Quotations

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.