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Louis Quotes by Stanley Crouch
- Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
- The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
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- I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the… — Josephine Baker
- Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. — Bud Abbott
- I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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
- I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali
- I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...… — Eric Clapton
- I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan. — Andy Cohen
- Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde