Louis Armstrong Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• What we play is life.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Inspirational Life, Live Life

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Jazz, Jazz Music

• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, African American, Jazz

• [Bebop is] Chinese music.

  Louis Armstrong

  Chinese, Bebop, Chinese Music

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Jazz, Asks

  "Jazz Giants of the 20th Century/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2007.

• If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Life, Music, Practice

• 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 it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Two, Way, Jazz

• 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 get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, Sick, Littles

  "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.

• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Heart, Jazz

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Soul

• You blows who you is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Jazz

• 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 hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Memories, Night

• When you're dead, you're done.

  Louis Armstrong

  Done, Jazz, Jazz Music

• I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Needs, Jazz

• 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. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, People, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

• If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Jazz

• I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Jazz, Spades

• All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Jazz, Remember

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Jazz, Knows

• Jazz is what I play for a living.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Playing Jazz, Jazz

• There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

  Louis Armstrong

  Two, Secret, Jazz

• When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

  Louis Armstrong

  Giving, Tunes, Dollars

• 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 first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, Trying, Fundamentals

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