Louis Armstrong Quotes

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• Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
• What we play is life.
• If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
• You blows who you is.
• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
• It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It…
• The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying,…
• Love is talkative passion.
• Red beans and ricely yours.
• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
• If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
• Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
• Never play a thing the same way twice.
• Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.
• 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 can…
• Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
• I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.…

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