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Louis Armstrong Quotes
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![A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/785/784087/784087.webp "A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term Picture Quote #1")
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What we play is life (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I don’t get involved in politics. I just blow my horn. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
It’s getting almost so bad a colored man hasn’t got any country (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
You’ve got to be good or as bad as the devil (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
The best I can do is stay happy (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I don’t need words. It’s all in the phrasing. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I think we’ve all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There’s a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, ‘If you got to ask, you ain’t never gonna get to know.’ (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That’s the secret (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn’t necessarily the blues (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right - shame on you (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn’t have tolerated with me (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that’s right. If you don’t live a life, you don’t got nothin’ to come out your horn (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that’s still there - it’s preserved. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they’re not preaching a separatist agenda. They’re not taking their music and saying, This is for me. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
It’s a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
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 Quotes)
And if Mozart is for Sundays, who do you listen to the rest of the week?Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays. And Glenn Miller on Fridays, unless it’s raining. If it’s raining, it’s always Billie Holiday.What about Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday? I asked.Those days are quiet. Unless it’s raining. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)
Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays, Glenn Miller on Fridays, and Mozart on Sundays. Unless it was raining. If it’s raining, it’s always Billie Holiday. (Louis Armstrong Quotes)