Armstrong Quote by Al Stewart

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth…

— Jackson Browne

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in…

— Chuck Brown

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie…

— Tony Bennett

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what…

— Ken Burns

The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of…

— Wynton Marsalis

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

— Billie Holiday

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century…

— Anonymous

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

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