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"Every man...

prays in his own language."

Duke Ellington

Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington led one of the most remarkable and self-defined orchestras in jazz for 50 years. Brilliant musician are well known for bold thinking and expressing themselves through their compositions and writings. Duke Ellington was no exception and this compilation of quotes pays tribute to some of the philosophical and idealogical quotes from one of the twentieth centuries greatest composers.