“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).

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American jazz musician, composer and band leader 1899–1974

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