The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Image
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
![“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 second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.” quote by Louis Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/332/louis-armstrong-7258_band_as-many-bands-as-you-heard-in-new-orlean_102795.jpg)
![“[Bebop is] Chinese music.” quote by Louis Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/128/louis-armstrong-7258_bebop_bebop-is-chinese-music-155806_155806.jpg)
