#armstrong

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

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. ↗

— Philip Levine

#armstrong #day #hours #i #i love

I lean back. "What the hell are you doing?" "What do you mean?" she asks, innocently batting her eyelashes against the hot sun beaming down on us. Is she kidding me? "Where's you toungue?" I ask stupidly. Her wet little eyebrows furrow. "In my mouth. Why, where's it supposed to be? ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humor #maggie-armstrong #humor

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#because #business #graduated #harvard #high

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. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. ↗

— Al Stewart

#day #judgment #louis #louis armstrong #playing

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#i #just #lance #lance armstrong #like

I've got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a son who likes setting things on fire." - Adam Vasic ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#humor #kelly-armstrong #thirteen #humor

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus! ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#jaime-vegas #kelley-armstrong #magic

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. ↗

— David Byrne

#bike #bit #brooklyn #get #i