"Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride."

-- Bobby Hackett

#Appreciate Quotes #Armstrong Quotes

“I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.”
“The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself against India. The problem was that once Pakistan acquired the weapons, it allowed the country to be more aggressive. So they stepped up their support for the Kashmiri terrorists, and it led very quickly to the Kargil crisis in 2000, which almost sparked a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Source : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.”
“What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.”
“One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.”
“PoincarÃ© [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that PoincarÃ© had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.”
“A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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