"Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong."

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Gary Giddins

“Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.”
“We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.”

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“I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.”
“You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you...”
“I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.”
“Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!”
“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.”
“Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.”

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