Generous Quote by Leslie Uggams Download Open image “Louis Armstrong was really like my pops. He was very generous to my mom and I.” — Leslie Uggams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generous He Like Louis Armstrong Mom Really
Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert.… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things… — Nicholas Payton Copy Share Image
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles! — India Arie Copy Share Image
My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So… — Hayley Williams 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 play, and… — Thomas Gibson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller Copy Share Image
I was supposedly named after the Bette Davis character in 'The Letter' by my sister. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I just love 'Happy.' I have a little grand baby who loves that song. We'll play it and dance around. Pharrell's conveyed a feeling… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
My Aunt Eloise Uggams was my first inspiration. She performed on Broadway, and when I was 10 years old, I saw her in 'Porgy… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
It's kind of nice to be acknowledged, and that people think enough of you that they want to give you something. So I appreciate… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I do so many things it has a tendency to confuse people. They didn't know where to put me. So they put me nowhere. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Black theaters are not given nearly enough attention. We need these theaters to be aware of each other, to help each other. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and a change of scenery can be very refreshing and just the lift you need. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters. — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied. — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image