Armstrong and Billie

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a…

— Norman Mailer

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no…

— Jasper Fforde

I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world.…

— Woody Allen

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

— Wernher von Braun

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

— Wynton Marsalis

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is…

— Denis O'Hare

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of…

— Agatha Christie

I saw a guy wearing a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet and a Lance Armstrong bracelet, and he went up to this blind kid…

— Daniel Tosh

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

— Odysseas Elytis

Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your…

— Mark Cavendish

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize…

— Freddie Hubbard

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all…

— Robert Kiyosaki