Fans Quotes by Louis Armstrong

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

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

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

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

— Louis Armstrong

I've Got the World on a String,

— Louis Armstrong

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

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

— Louis Armstrong

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

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

— Louis Armstrong

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

— Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

— Louis Armstrong

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah....

— Louis Armstrong