Louis Armstrong Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Crazy, Fighting, Cutting

  "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans". Book by Louis Armstrong, 1954.

  40 Copy quote

• 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

  27 Copy quote

• 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.

  12 Copy quote

• You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

  Louis Armstrong

  Song, Heart, Hymns

  Source: blankonblank.org

  14 Copy quote

• You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

  Louis Armstrong

  Devil, Be Good

  Source: blankonblank.org

  48 Copy quote

• Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.

  Louis Armstrong

  Player, Men, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

  20 Copy quote

• It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

  Louis Armstrong

  Men, Feel Good, Good Man

  16 Copy quote

• I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Blow, Horns, Get Involved

  10 Copy quote

• You got to love to be able to play

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Able

  52 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

  Louis Armstrong

  Fashion, Breathing, Long

  57 Copy quote

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• Give me a kiss to build a dream on
  And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
  Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
  A kiss to build a dream on.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Kissing, Giving

  Song: A Kiss To Build A Dream On, Album: Hello, Dolly!

  48 Copy quote

• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

  19 Copy quote

• You blows who you is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Jazz

  21 Copy quote

• The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

  Louis Armstrong

  Government, People, Way

  Louis Armstrong (1999). “Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• 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, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Gratitude, Appreciation

  15 Copy quote

• 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. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

  Louis Armstrong

  Nature, Blessed, Dark

  Song: What A Wonderful World

  43 Copy quote

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Needs, Jazz

  15 Copy quote

• When you're dead, you're done.

  Louis Armstrong

  Done, Jazz, Jazz Music

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• Love is talkative passion.

  Louis Armstrong

  Disappointment, Passion, Love Is

  23 Copy quote

• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

  6 Copy quote

• At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.

  Louis Armstrong

  Marijuana, Firsts, Lost

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  24 Copy quote

Page 2 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin