“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” — Duke Ellington Quote

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

“People do not retire. They are retired by others.”

“I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.”

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”