My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong” — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it,… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.'… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws.… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times better than… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share
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