"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them." — Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, born 1901
"Give me a kiss to build a dream on and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart. I ask no more than this. A kiss to build a dream on." — Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, born 1901
"Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for." — Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, born 1901
"We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself." — Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, born 1901
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." — Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, born 1930
"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." — Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, born 1930
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation." — Jean Arp, Alsatian painter, born 1886
"Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am." — Ruth Asawa, American sculptor, born 1926
"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be." — John Ashbery, American poet, born 1927
"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army." — John Ashbery, American poet, born 1927
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places." — John Ashbery, American poet, born 1927
"How many people came and stayed a certain time, uttered light or dark speech that became part of you, like light behind windblown fog and sand filtered and influenced by it, until no part remains that is surely you." — John Ashbery, American poet, born 1927