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Jazz Quotes by Louis Armstrong
- 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.
- If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
- Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
- Jazz is what I play for a living.
- To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
- When you're dead, you're done.
- [Bebop is] Chinese music.
- 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, you just enjoy…
- Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you…
- I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
- All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a…
- You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
More Jazz Quotes
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler