Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing. — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck 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
“Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays, Glenn Miller on Fridays, and Mozart on Sundays. Unless it was raining. If it's… — Clare Vanderpool 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 love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make… — Ahmet Ertegun 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
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
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
I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I'd always win the auditions, and finally the Schiffmanns, who owned the Apollo, said, 'We're never gonna get rid of this kid!… — Leslie Uggams 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
I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since… — Thomas Chatterton Williams 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
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of… — Richard M. Nixon 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
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block 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
The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment… — Frantz Fanon 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
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 started off working with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington at 9. Then on to working with Elvis and… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong was about playing with soul and emotion, not about showing how technically brilliant he was. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong's pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone. — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong was really like my pops. He was very generous to my mom and I. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of… — Nicholas Payton Copy Share Image
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison]… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
![“I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.” quote by Gordon Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e4/gordon-lightfoot-7499_armstrong_i-remember-when-i-first-rocked-in-it-was_1230010.jpg)
![“[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.” quote by Bing Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/bing-crosby-24219_armstrong_louis-armstrong-was-the-only-musician-wh_3202156.jpg)
![“What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.” quote by Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ca/leonard-bernstein-10475_armstrong_what-louis-armstrong-does-is-real-and-tr_3005159.jpg)
![“[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.” quote by Nicholas Payton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/62b/nicholas-payton-73299_armstrong_louis-armstrong-is-the-father-of-us-all_3028164.jpg)
![“A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.” quote by Freddie Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f36/freddie-hubbard-25585_armstrong_a-very-few-musicians-passed-across-all-d_2895123.jpg)
