Duke Ellington

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1899 age 0

   Born

2. 1959 age 60

   CreditAnatomy of a Murder

   CreditAnatomy of a Murdercomposer

3. 1974 age 75

   Died

• JQJohn Qualen1 title
• OBOrson Bean1 title
• GSGeorge C. Scott1 title
• MHMurray Hamilton1 title
• JSJames Stewart1 title
• KCKathryn Crosby1 title
• BGBen Gazzara1 title
• KLKen Lynch1 title
• EAEve Arden1 title
• SLSam Leavitt1 title

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• It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think of music sometimes in terms of color [...] and [in a furnace] I like to see the flames licking yellow in the dark and then pulsing down to a kind of red glow.

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Sights enabling musical inspiration] The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician [...] Things like the old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night, or something someone said long ago. I remember I once wrote a sixty-four-bar piece about a memory of when I was a little boy in bed and heard a man whistling on the street outside, his footsteps echoing away. Things like these may be more important to a musician than technique.

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As Bach says [...] if you ain't got a left hand, you ain't worth a hoot in hell.

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Expressing a liking for trains] Folks can't rush you until you get off.

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You can't write music right [...] until you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.

  Duke Ellington, CC BY-SA 4.0