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#louis armstrong

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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


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


Philip Levine


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My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.


Mose Allison


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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.


Jackson Browne


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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


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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


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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.


Al Stewart


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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 jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!


Dave Brubeck


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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.


Stanley Crouch


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My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.


Dick Dale


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