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American Jazz Legend Duke Ellington Summary

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American jazz legend Duke Ellington said, “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” This means that any problem your facing there is always a chance to do anything and everything you possibly can to fix it. I agree with American jazz legend Duke Ellington, because there are so many problems in this world that are still lingering around with people just because they don’t give their all to resolve their problem. From experience I know that if you have a problem and you do your best to solve it you won’t have that problem anymore, but if you don’t really care and don’t put effort into the resolution of that problem, your just going to have to deal with that problem again in the future. There is always a resolution to a problem, so this

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