"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite……" — Stanley Crouch
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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36 Quotes by Stanley Crouch
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by…
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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of…
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know…
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy…
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the…
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in…
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not…
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I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex…
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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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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