But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'. . . Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me. " Duke- Lament
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Down with Dukes of Hazzard!
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?
