Louis Armstrong was really like my pops. He was very generous to my mom and I. — Leslie Uggams 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 could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride. — Bobby Hackett Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong” — Louis Armstrong 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
“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
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
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time… — Al Hirt 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
Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing. — Kyle Mooney 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
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
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
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
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
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
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar… — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film… — Randy Weston 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
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
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But… — Scott Avett 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
“I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all… — Ralph Ellison 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
“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
“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
“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong. — Tony Bennett 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
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