Armstrong Quotations

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.

When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.

Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

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

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

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

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

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.

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

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

Ultimately, it's about a guy who's afraid to take a risk. Our hope is that Andy will be an inspiration to others. He's like the Lance Armstrong of virgins.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

NYC & Co. is proud to showcase the Louis Armstrong House Museum and we hope New Yorkers and visitors alike will take the opportunity to learn about this brilliant musician and humanitarian.

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today?

I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will do everything I can to beat him in his last appearance on the Tour.

I have always favored a mix. I don't believe in segregating music into categories. I think that exercise tends to be very arbitrary. I like to quote the jazz great Louis Armstrong on the subject: 'There are only two types of music, good and bad. I play good music.' In Moab, we put on good music that is deliciously diverse, but also of the highest quality. Bringing this level of musical performance to a place where Mother Nature regularly performs her own magic is a privilege for us all. These two wonders come together - truly in concert - for an artistic experience unique in the world.

He has forced Armstrong to come out and play!

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

I thought Armstrong pitched the ball real well. She pitched the ball hard, and she hit her spots with different pitches.

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

I think we are going to move hastily to get this done. I had a long talk with Jim Armstrong today on the addition of the senior center to the community center,

I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert. Unfortunately, I never did get to meet him.

I thought it would be fun. I heard Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow was going to be hosting the show. I thought it would be a great opportunity to meet him for the first time. It was tons of fun.

Mike Armstrong jumped in when we all thought we knew where the industry was heading. Before he knew it, the changes that he had made were not helping AT&T, and he had to sell his way out of it.

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.

We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from the sport newspaper L'Equipe.

To be playing in a threesome with Neil Armstrong and Clint Eastwood was pretty incredible, ... For Peggy and I to be part of that was pretty heady stuff.

You have to be Lance Armstrong and Babe Ruth.

We will have to look at the centre position because in addition to losing Graham, Ross Armstrong is going into hospital in the next week or two for an operation and that leaves us kind of bare in that area.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

This was a no-knock search warrant. We surprised them. Armstrong was outside the house when we got there, and the three other people were inside, smoking marijuana,

What's even more surprising is that EPO methods have been authenticated for more than three years. It's amazing that they waited until Armstrong was retired to reveal that,

We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely wild birds.

Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in the Tour de France,

As the birthplace of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, we are curious if this will be Al Gore's last stand as well.

Armstrong is the strongest man on this Tour. I think he's still got gas in his tank.

Armstrong has a problem. He has locked up so many lines that he really violates the anti-trust laws in terms of concentration of market power. He's trying to get below the radar screen of the anti-trust authorities.

Armstrong continued to pitch real well. We showed a lot of character to come back two times when we were down. Dana hit her spots pretty well tonight and she was throwing with some velocity.

I've been happy with how I've played all summer. It took a while to get my rhythm since I hadn't been on Armstrong Stadium court in quite some time.

Sadly, Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong have split up. I guess she got tired of riding on the handlebars every time they went on a date.

Right now, we are focused on Mendenhall and Meadows elementary schools. We also have a group of sixth-grade students at Armstrong Middle School.

Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

A lot of our buildings were built prior to computers entering the educational world. As a result, we have difficulty all across the district in terms of having enough power outlets. That will no longer be a concern at Armstrong. This new system will allow us to run all the computers and appliances that we use in education. Armstrong will be a step ahead of the other buildings.

There maybe something of an omen there because I made my debut against Spain and Gerry Armstrong made his name against them.

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

It's a great deal. A joint venture doesn't cost (AT&T) as much as a merger would and it gets them into homes and businesses. Michael Armstrong is trying to win the battle from a different angle.

It's the same theory that Lance Armstrong exploits whenever he's riding in the Tour de France. He's taking advantage of the draft created by other riders to reduce the amount of effort he has to make.

It truly has ever since 2004 when Lance Armstrong won our event. It's a bit of a supply and demand scenario with the top teams in Europe, they all want to come to Georgia to compete.

It took us 30 minutes to shake them. Maybe 35 minutes, and that's due to their tenacity. Hilton Armstrong changed everything in the middle.

The return of Armstrong is a manner very sporting to confront the situation they've created for him. It seems to me 100 percent correct and I encourage him to return, because he's a great champion and it's logical that he does it.

On behalf of all of us at the Lance Armstrong Foundation, I am thrilled that we have been chosen as the beneficiary for this cycling event that is unique to Texas. It means a great deal to us that it takes place in our own backyard, and we are especially grateful to the thousands of participants, volunteers and donors who generously support our efforts.

The interest will allow them to maintain their viewer base to the extent Lance participates in the channel. They can't be the Lance Armstrong Channel once he leaves competitive cycling.

I'm not saying that spending on wars and terrorism is a bad thing,'' Armstrong said in an interview on ABC's

I'm disappointed in the system, ... This agency is leaking these results prematurely. I think Lance Armstrong was wrongly accused and it may be the same for Mariano.

If Lance Armstrong does come back, he will be tested 10 times a day. This will happen again and again and even if he wins again it won't prove anything to his doubters, most of whom work at L'Equipe .

If Lance Armstrong does come back, he will be tested 10 times a day, ... This will happen again and again and even if he wins again it won't prove anything to his doubters, most of whom work at L'Equipe .

I remember one time (Ozark assistant) coach (Kevin) Armstrong was going to take me to a tryout for a coach at a college in Iowa and I spent the entire weekend partying. I was just feeling dead and terrible and called him up and cancelled the trip. I just think back to how stupid I was to take away all of those chances I had.

I have to say this is not pleasant but, for the moment, it only involves Lance Armstrong and France.

Hilton Armstrong was the best player on the court. He changed everything in the middle. He had big baskets. He was immense from the foul line.

He's sort of the Lance Armstrong of Nordic skiing. He doesn't leave anything to chance: equipment, training, planning for race day.

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

He always told me the people in Armstrong County were wonderful and I found out he was right,

He always talked about how he wanted to ride with Lance Armstrong to see if he could beat him.

Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

Armstrong has no place in cycling.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

Andrew Armstrong is guilty of a lot of things. There is a history with this man. . . . But the thing he's guilty of more than anything else is generosity to his employees.

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

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.

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.

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