Best Louis Armstrong Quotes

38 Louis Armstrong quotes by 33 unique authors

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free… — Steve Lacy
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… — Frantz Fanon
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday.… — Tony Bennett
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. — Al Stewart
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart,… — Jasper Fforde
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the… — Frantz Fanon
When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I… — Thomas Gibson
I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert. Unfortunately,… — Ray Stevens
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. — Philip Levine
I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how… — Ahmet Ertegun

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