A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Duke Ellington
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Duke Ellington
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.