Song Quotes by Louis Armstrong

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong

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

— Louis Armstrong

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

— Louis Armstrong

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

— Louis Armstrong

“What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.”

— Louis Armstrong

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

— Louis Armstrong

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.”

— Louis Armstrong

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

— Louis Armstrong

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

— Louis Armstrong

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

— Louis Armstrong

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

— Louis Armstrong

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

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

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to…

— Louis Armstrong

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

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's…

— Louis Armstrong

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