Duke Quotes

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. (Boris Vian)
I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. View quote
Patty Duke
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. View quote
Cannonball Adderley
I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer. View quote
David Lloyd George
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa. View quote
Miriam Makeba
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies-for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory. View quote
Robert Southey
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil. View quote
Thomas Malory
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. (Henry Fielding)
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Jean Jacques Rousseau," he answered, "is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends. View quote
Stendhal
He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll. View quote
Miles Davis
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ... Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. View quote
Susanna Clarke
I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one. View quote
Quincy Jones
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. View quote
Mose Allison
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. View quote
Grant Hill
I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five. View quote
Grant Hill
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins. (Aaron Staton)
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. View quote
David Amram
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. View quote
David Talbot
Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero. View quote
Joel McCrea
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. View quote
Lawrence Welk