#duke

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #duke




You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.


Stevie Wonder


#ask #because #composition #different #duke

I never knew the difference between loving someone and being in love,” he began. “I don’t know why, because now it seems so obvious. I mean, it’s in the name: in love. When you love someone that just means you care; but when you’re in love, that means you’re a part of it.” He scanned the audience and landed on Paxton and Jade holding hands in the third row. “The feeling consumes you,” he continued. “And when you’re surrounded by that want and that need to make that other person happy, you can’t see anything else. You’re blind to all of the hate and the hurt that’s waiting on the outside. None of it matters, because in here – in love – nothing hurts.” Larson watched as a drop of his own tears fell onto the surface in front of him. “I don’t care if I’m blind for the rest of my life. I loved Owen. I’m in love with him. And even though he’s gone, I’ll never leave this place we made.


Megan Duke


#larson #larson-and-owen #megan-duke #small-circles #love

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.


Steve Lacy


#duke ellington #ellington #fell #hearing #i

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.


Steve Lacy


#duke ellington #ellington #fell #heard #i

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.


Abbey Lincoln


#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.


Joshua Micah Marshall


#apparently #cunningham #defense #donation #duke

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.


John H. Morgan


#been #capt #company #duke #especially

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.


Frank Ocean


#duke #friend #i #jokes #life

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.


Dante Hall


#college #devils #duke #favorite #houston

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.


Norman Granz


#band #because #big #big band #duke