Armstrong Quotes

100 Armstrong quotes by 85 unique authors

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and… — Bill Nye
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein… — Ken Burns
If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused… — Robert Kiyosaki
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond… — Charles Bolden
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday
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… — Freddie Hubbard
Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done… — Craig T. Nelson
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got… — Billie Holiday
I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon — Alexey Leonov
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine… — Norman Mailer
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a… — Abbey Lincoln
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free… — Steve Lacy
It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh,… — David Weber
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… — Frantz Fanon
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I… — Billy Eckstine
I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health'… — Duff Goldman
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison
I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon. — Umberto Guidoni
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac

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