Quotes of: Duke Keyword

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Billy Higgins

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

Frank Ocean

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Charlie Watts

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

Charlie Hunter

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Cameron van der Burgh

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

Georgie Fame

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

Joel Parkinson

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

Jimmy Rushing

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Curtis LeMay

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

Natalie du Toit

Raoul Duke: Shit, he's killing himself!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Raoul Duke: You're not Portuguese, man!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

Joe Henderson

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

John Tesh

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Yanni

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

Steve Lacy

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Billy Higgins

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Billy Higgins

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Bill Laswell

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Sanborn