Quotes of: Joe-louis Keyword

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

Dean Karnazes

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

Jim Fowler

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

Charles Hazlewood

Louis: [clinging to the automobile in the chase sequence] I'd really prefer to be in the car, Mother!

Castle in the Sky

Louis: [cornered by the terror dog] Nice doggy. Cute little pooch. Maybe I've got a Milk-Bone.

Ghostbusters

Clusiot: You're Louis Dega. I'm Clusiot. How come you ended up in a place like this? Dega: Favouritism.

Papillon

[first lines] Coleman: [holding a breakfast tray while Louis is still asleep] Your breakfast, sir.

Trading Places

Louis: [after giving the secret knock] Who is it? Billy Ray Valentine: Open the door, man!

Trading Places

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.

James Harden

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

Hope Solo

I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

Zayn Malik

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

Billy Higgins

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

Bill Laswell

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Donald Byrd

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Georgie Fame

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Ken Burns

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Laura Mvula

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Frederick Soddy

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

Acker Bilk

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Arthur Erickson