I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing. — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“We permit a new future to enter the room with these startling encounters. A young boy from Austin, Texas, Charles Black Jr.,… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could. — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
With someone like Cole Porter, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, or Bessie Smith, you had people who understood emotion, could translate it into… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
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… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that.… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
“In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
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