Armstrong Quotes - Page 2

• 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 than that.

  Steve Lacy

  Ifs

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• You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, Horns

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• Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

  Al Stewart

  Future, Judgment, Trumpets

  Song: Genie On A Table Top, Album: Famous Last Words, 1993

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• 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 is to physics.

  Ken Burns

  Important, Jazz, Physics

  Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf

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• Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.

  Grete Waitz

  Cancer, Believe, Inspiration

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• I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.

  Willie Nelson

  Winning, Thinking, Race

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• I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

  Douglas Booth

  Grandparent, Musician, Firsts

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• [Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.

  Nicholas Payton

  Father, People, Style

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• According to the New York Post, Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen are dating. They must be getting serious - Lance gave Ashley his yellow Live Strong bracelet. She wears it as a belt.

  Chelsea Handler

  Strong, New York, Yellow

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat?

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Night, Style

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• Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, World, Sophisticated

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Fighting, Reality

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• Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

  Dhani Jones

  Song, Two, People

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• '2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Sea, Forever

  "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the "Associated Press", March 18, 2008.

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• Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Monday, London Olympics

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• If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with the people whose lives it's going to affect. Like George Washington, had to get all those guys who the British killed to agree to die. Neil Armstrong, had to crank a couple of elbows into Buzz Aldrin's face mask to make sure he got on the moon first. And Christopher Titus, well, he worked his dad for five grand. Ha ha. Who can't support who ? I know, it's complicated.

  Christopher Titus

  Couple, Dad, Moving

  "The Gift of the Car Guy". "Titus" (TV Series), m.imdb.com. 2001.

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• There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

  Suzanne Somers

  Cancer, Childhood, Three

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

  George Meyer

  Men, Peculiar, Stills

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rest In Peace, Recovery, Sacrifice

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

  Lance Armstrong

  Names, Long, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.

  Bill Crow

  Teacher, School, Order

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• I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

  Stanley Bing

  Moon, Thinking, Levels

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• If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ken Titus taped a hotel key to his underwear to score with an airport security guard.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Moon, Keys

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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