"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."

-- Steve Lacy

#Armstrong Quotes

“Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.”
“Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.”

Source : Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books
“What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1856). “Devotions”, p.133
“You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.”
“It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.”

Source : "Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course". "All Things Considered" with Nell Greenfieldboyce, www.npr.org. November 10, 2005.
“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”

Source : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin
“We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation.”
“If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.”

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