"I listen to jazz about three hours a……" — Philip Levine
"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
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29 Quotes by Philip Levine
Philip Levine has 29 quotes on this site.
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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of…
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Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over,…
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I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.
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You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
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How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
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I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I…
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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state…
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to…
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More Armstrong Quotes
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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a…
— Dave Brubeck
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here,…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little…
— David Byrne
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Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for…
— Michael N. Castle
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong…
— Unknown Author
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
— Duke Ellington
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He…
— Duke Ellington
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I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came…
— Scott Avett
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For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example…
— Neil Armstrong
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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil…
— Conan O'Brien
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