Duke Ellington - pianist, bandleader, composer Duke Ellington Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky. Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself. People do not retire. They are retired by others. Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.