Louis Armstrong Quotes

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Health

• Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Girl
  • You
  • Easy

• Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Time
  • Society

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Vision
  • Young

• Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Spanish
  • Recovery

• And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Great
  • Think
  • Value

• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Problem
  • Republican

• I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dreams

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• The problem isn't getting your hands on a press pass - it's acquiring one of those wide-brimmed fedora hats in which to keep your press pass.

  

  Dave Itzkoff

• Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Party
  • Wonder

• In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Music
  • Important
  • Reality

• People are digging into house music even from other genres.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • People
  • Music
  • House

• There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Music
  • Kinds