Lil Hardin Armstrong famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

  • God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

  • Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

  • The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  • The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  • Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

  • I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

  • I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

  • Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

  • You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.