swing quotes

Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.

-Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy)
  Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing.

-Mills, Irving
  Song (music by Duke Ellington).

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