Duke Ellington quotes

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 3/28/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
> > If Fred needs to include just one, this would be it. Song title from
> > 1932, I believe.
>
> That's the erroneous one I'm deleting, since the song lyrics were actually
> by Irving Mills.

Ah. In that case I'd vote for "Music is my mistress, and she plays
second fiddle to no one." That's the last line of his 1973
autobiography, _Music Is My Mistress_:

http://books.google.com/books?id=RFNcxttbE2wC


--Ben Zimmer

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