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
When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band… — Thomas Gibson Copy Share Image
“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New… — Eduardo Galeano 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 actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth 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
It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did… — Louis Armstrong 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
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
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
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong,… — Hugh Masekela 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 really like my pops. He was very generous to my mom and I. — Leslie Uggams 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
“Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great… — Jasper Fforde 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
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Larry Page probably never listened to early Louis Armstrong records, in which the notion of time is reinvented. Armstrong threw away the… — Jonathan Taplin 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
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
I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and… — Harry Belafonte 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
