Duke Ellington: Kindness

Duke Ellington was American jazz musician, composer and band leader. Explore interesting quotes on kindness.
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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.”

Duke Ellington

Nat Hentoff, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene (2011).

“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”

Duke Ellington

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).

“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 it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.”

Duke Ellington

Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal (1962) Reproduced in The Duke Ellington Reader, ISBN 978-0-19-509391-9.