Dukes Quotes

• Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • America
  • Band
  • Player

• Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Country
  • Europe

• What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

  

  Ernest Poole
  • Kind
  • Raises
  • Crops

• Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Care
  • Synonym
  • Buns

• I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Television
  • Watches
  • Bedroom

• The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

  

  William Cowper
  • Church
  • Enough
  • Knows