以下、ジャンル問わず、ランダムにエリントンと何らかの関係のありそうなところを…。
・恩田陸
実はエリントンファンではないか？
＊歴史上の人物として
・Cotton Club
purple gazelle は DE＆JCのAngelicaか？
モーガン・フリーマンが、ニューライン・シネマの新作映画『ザ・ジャズ・アンバサダーズ』（原題）でアメリカ最高峰の音楽家といわれるデューク・エリントンに扮することが決まった。映画では生涯3000曲以上の作品を手掛けたエリントンの活躍を描くほか、1963年にエリントン・オーケストラがイラクでツアーを行った様子も描かれる。『キング・アーサー』のアントワン・フークア監督がメガホンを取り、ジェレミー・ドナーが脚本を手掛ける。
これ、どうなったのかなあ？
以下、ずらーっとエリントンが述べたとされている引用を拾ってきた。
が、どれも出典元がないので、正確な出典元を探すのは今後の課題。
Ellington Quotes
"There is no art when one does something without intention."
-Duke Ellington
"I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky."
-Duke Ellington
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
-Duke Ellington / Song title (1932)
"Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone."
-Duke Ellington
"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."
-Duke Ellington
"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
-Duke Ellington
"My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?"
-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."
-Duke Ellington
“At least one day out of the year all musicians should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.”
-Miles Davis
“I’m sure critics have their purpose, 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 he did.”
“Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”Look (10 August 1954)
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.”
“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.”
“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
“What is music to you? What would you be without music? Music is everything. Nature is music (cicadas in the tropical night). The sea is music, the wind is music. The rain drumming on the roof and the storm raging in the sky are music. Music is the oldest entity. The scope of music is immense and infinite. It is the ‘esperanto’ of the world.”
“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”
“A goal is a dream with a finish line.”
“If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!”
“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
“There is no art without intention.”
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.”
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
“The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.”
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”
“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that man people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”
“Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.”
“I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.”
“There is nothing too keeping a band together. You simply have too have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is too pay them money!”
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
On jazz [[New York Herald Tribune (9 July 1961)
Every man prays in his own language.
Section title and eponymous song of A Concert of Sacred Music (1965)
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, "I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place." Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
Program notes for A Concert of Sacred Music (1965) [1]
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986)
Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
Music Is My Mistress (1973)
If it sounds good, it IS good.
J.D. Moore's Ten Commandments for The Studio （？怪しい）
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Nat Hentoff: At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
wiki quoteをみても、出典が怪しいものばかり。
・NHK Eテレ
これは未確認情報で、あくまで推測の域をでないのだけれど、
Eテレのキッズステーションには、濃いエリントンファンがいるのではないか？
日本のテレビ放送の歴史において最高視聴率を獲得した子供番組である、
グッチ裕三のハッチポッチステーションで「Such Sweet Thunder」が使われていたり、
「夕方クインテット」では、「ニドネのサンバ」というタイトルで「Perdido」がアレンジ（パロディ）されていた。
原曲の「Perdido, I look for my heart it's perdido」の箇所が、
「ニドネ、ニドネ ニドネ ニドネ」という歌詞になっていて必笑ものだった。