“It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.” PeopleFirstsSpiritGivenMetsMeetingsAlbumsMaxGreat PeopleCarterDukesArmstrong Author:Abbey Lincoln
“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.” IfsArmstrong Author:Steve Lacy
“It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.” RealNightBrainBoysTvsMoonLateSittingStandingExcitingSurfaceArmstrongSaturnSitting UpLive Tv Author:David Weber
“Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.” WorldEyeBeautifulRocksMusicianLogicMadJazzWaveLovelyBrokeOfficialsMarchSwingsMudNew OrleansHornsVigorousSubtletyArmstrongBroke UpRagtime Book:On the Road Source: On the Road
“I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.” Has BeensMadeFactsMoonAstronautArmstrong Author:Arthur Goldberg
“Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.” MusicWonderfulStyleSingingRomanticJazzErasIntimateBroadwayArmstrong Author:Tony Bennett
“I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.” ThinkingRealFactsVisionCommitmentImpressedCeoStrategicChairmanArmstrongStrategic Vision Author:William Morris
“If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.” IfsKnowsMusicKnow HowJazzJazz MusicHow To LoveArmstrong Author:Mahalia Jackson
“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.” KnowsMenFateSacrificeMankindHe ManMoonBraveRecoveryApolloNo HopeBrave ManBuzzArmstrongThere Is HopeRest In Peace Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.” FutureJudgmentTrumpetsArmstrongPremonitionJudgment Day Author:Al Stewart
“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.” ThinkingWinningRaceTerribleDrugSevenTreatedFranceDisgustingBikeArmstrong Author:Willie Nelson
“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.” PeopleWorldWayTwoEndsMomentsCertainSongForgetWonderfulAmountUltimateMy WayFrankArmstrongKaraokeWonderful World Author:Dhani Jones
“'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.” HumansMomentsAgeLyingFictionForeverWrittenSeaDividesTranquilityHuman HistoryBuzzArmstrongIntertwined Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“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.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWholeRealityFightingFeltToo MuchNew YorkThis WorldTerribleWhole LifeTerrible ThingsArmstrongOverdoseBergmanKnicksAlways Fighting Author:Woody Allen
“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.” ThinkingWayFirstsImportantMomentsSpiritualSlaveryImportant ThingsInternationalAfrican AmericanImpulsePresent MomentJaneCrowFranklinArmstrongJim CrowEmblemsNinaColtrane Author:Cornel West
“The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.” WorldCountryLinesBottomBottom LineArmstrong Author:Tony Bennett
“Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'” FunnyTestsLondonOfficialsOlympicsMondayConductingArmstrongSteroidLondon Olympics Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.” ShouldGuyWaveHumbleHatsFlagsArmstrongHats Off Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” PeopleTryingLongHelpingNamesChangedLong TimeFoundationConfessionOrganisationArmstrong Author:Lance Armstrong
“At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.” PeopleLastsNamesProtectSevenArmstrong Author:Lance Armstrong
“Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.” WorldSportsFraudSophisticatedProgrammesArmstrongDoping Author:Lance Armstrong
“Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.” HumansGuyKnownArmstrong Author:Gene Cernan
“Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.” PeopleFilmIndustryPeterFilm IndustryArmstrong Author:David Wenham
“Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.” WorldNamesMoonMilesHolidayRaysRapperDukesBuzzArmstrongDizzy Author:Quincy Jones
“When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldnt play, they could sing.” IfsMenPlayYoungMy FamilyShoesYoung ManJordanArmstrong Author:Chuck Brown
“I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.” FeelsActorsPeterPrivilegedOutstandingAndrewArmstrongGarfield Author:Andrew Buchan
“Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.” ThinkingHumansPersonsNextTermStepsLimitsPushingCompetingHuman ExperienceNext StepsEnvelopesArmstrongPersonal Best Author:Robin Williams
“Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.” PeopleTogetherDifferencesTalkingSawsCancerFranceParisVehicleArmstrongTalking To HimPeople With Cancer Author:Michael J. Fox
“Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.” IfsSaidHornsArmstrong Author:Sally Field
“More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.” BelieveMatterTurnsBeliefForceGrowing UpGrowingTaughtAmountCome UpPornographyBelief SystemsArmstrong Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I saw a guy wearing a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet and a Lance Armstrong bracelet, and he went up to this blind kid and rubbed his eyes, and the kid could see. But he wasn't used to the light, 'cause it was bright, and he walked into traffic and was killed instantly. Okay, the people that are laughing right now? I'm gonna call you guys half-full. Because you're focusing on the important part of the story: the bracelets are working.” PeopleImportantStoriesHumorLightEyeKidsFunnyUsedGuyJesusCausesHalfLaughingSawsRight NowOkayBlindHis EyesTrafficArmstrongHalf FullBracelet Author:Daniel Tosh
“Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.” WritingChildrenPlayMotherThreeImaginationSupportFourFrontsHusbandCreatingSaintGrandmotherNeighborhoodArmstrong Author:Franny Armstrong
“I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.” ThreeHoursJazzArmstrong Author:Philip Levine
“If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.” IfsPersonsCostMoonPaidTaxpayersArmstrong Author:Danny Boyle
“Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.” AgeBandBaseballJazzIntegratedArmstrongGoodmanJazz Age Author:Wynton Marsalis
“The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.” WayWantBelieveSeemsWantedStarsHypocrisyGrantsDishonestyImmuneArmstrong Author:Selena Roberts
“Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory.... The self-described atheist has become a deity... but the inquiry's findings may cause the Armstrong faithful to ask, Was the miracle a mirage?” MaySelfEyeAsksCausesVictoryFindingsMiracleAtheistFocusedFaithfulInquiryDeitiesArmstrongHelpersMiragesCocoonsGimlets Author:Selena Roberts
“The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."” AmericaMusicianAgendasPreachingDukesSeparatingForefathersArmstrongJelly Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.” CenturySkillsModelsInstrumentsJazzChosenPrimariesPrincipal20th CenturyJazz MusicArmstrongContributors Author:Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
“Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."” ThinkingMenFirstsStepsMankindFoolMoonGiantsSoilLeapAstronautArmstrongSmall StepsShort Sighted Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.” PeopleBigsAmericaGreatnessProduceGeniusTablesSupposed To BeInjuryMeant To BeArmstrongGreatness Of America Author:Garrison Keillor
“I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLittlesAbleWalksCenturyYeahHipsSquares20th CenturyColumbusDipWigsArmstrong Author:Hugh Masekela
“Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.” LightWaterMastersJazzTowersSoloTrickyImprovisationNavigateBeaconsArmstrongJazz Improvisation Author:Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
“Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.” FirstsUseThreeLanguageFailingInfluenceCenturyKeysMusicianJazzCreatorSpreadDecadesMatureQuartersArmstrongQuarter Of A Century Author:Dan Morgenstern
“Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.” ArtFormSpiritArtistIndividualPleasureMillionsOur LivesShareTalentSorrowFameArchitectMagnificentRichnessArmstrongGreat Talent Author:Richard M. Nixon
“What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.” MenStepsEvolutionMoonArmstrongEvolution Of Man Author:Wernher von Braun
“The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.” MenWellsDoeMadeYoungGuyNamesFineGrewGrew UpYoung ManFrankHandsomeArmstrongStardomJeter Author:George Steinbrenner
“I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.” YearsKindShowsThreeFourCuttingMonthsSkillsRedHip HopRadioClubsHipsHopsHanging OutThree YearsBedroomNurturingJust ListenArmstrongPromotersMayhemPushyRed Alert Author:Mark Ronson
“Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.” WorldCenturyWidePassingPassingsJailRoyalPublic ServiceExplorersInconvenienceColumbusArmstrong Author:Seth Shostak