Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.
I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.
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.
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.
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.'
I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
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.
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.
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.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
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.
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.
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.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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