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Music Quotes by Louis Armstrong
- 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.
- 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…
- It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to…
- 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 learn the fundamentals…
- [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…
- Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
- Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
- 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…
- My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public.…
- I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
- Never play anything the same way twice.
- There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
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- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- 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