Armstrong Quotes

• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Jazz, Epitome

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• As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

  Charles Bolden

  Book, Long, Steps

  NASA Administrator Statement on Neil Armstrong's Death, www.nasa.gov. August 25, 2012.

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• Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

  Robert Ballard

  Golf, Moon, Mountain Ranges

  "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

  Ed Harris

  Inspiring, Fighting, Guy

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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

  Uncles, Sound, Ears

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

  Billy Tauzin

  Miracle, Drug, Treated

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• The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

  Tony Bennett

  Country, World, Lines

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• You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'

  Ned Block

  Knowledge, Mind, Answers

  Ned Joel Block (2007). “Consciousness, function, and representation”, The MIT Press

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• If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, How To Love, Jazz

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• I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  Sam Neill

  School, Play, Rooms

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• It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

  Louis Armstrong

  Country, America, World

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• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

  Stanley Crouch

  Moving, Airplane, Light

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• Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Hero, Guy, Done

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• As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own. Besides being one of America’s greatest explorers, Neil carried himself with a grace and humility that was an example to us all. When President Kennedy challenged the nation to send a human to the moon, Neil Armstrong accepted without reservation. As we enter this next era of space exploration, we do so standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong.

  Charles Bolden

  Book, Humility, Moon

  NASA Administrator Statement on Neil Armstrong's Death, www.nasa.gov. August 25, 2012.

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• Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Jazz, Music Is

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• For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Simple, Night

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• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Way

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• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Cancer, Second Chance, Survivor

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• I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

  Bill Nye

  Airplane, Kids, Moon

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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

  Kings, Player, Jazz

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• Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

  Gene Cernan

  Guy, Humans, Known

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

  Stanley Crouch

  Dresses, Trash, Bottom

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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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