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Louis Armstrong Quotes

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know Picture Quote #1

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend Picture Quote #1

If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song Picture Quote #1

Don’t do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All them weird chords which don’t mean a thing... you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to Picture Quote #1

Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance Picture Quote #1

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We don’t play slow and we don’t play fast, we play half fast Picture Quote #1

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 in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo Picture Quote #1

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played Picture Quote #1

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, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong Picture Quote #1

Unless you know what it is I ain’t never going to be able to explain it to you Picture Quote #1

The way they’re treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell Picture Quote #1

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I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that Picture Quote #1

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try Picture Quote #1

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden Picture Quote #1

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics Picture Quote #1

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know (Louis Armstrong Quotes) It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend (Louis Armstrong Quotes) If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out (Louis Armstrong Quotes) 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 Quotes) All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song (Louis Armstrong Quotes) Don’t do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up (Louis Armstrong Quotes) 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 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) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) All them weird chords which don’t mean a thing... you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to (Louis Armstrong Quotes) Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance (Louis Armstrong Quotes) We don’t play slow and we don’t play fast, we play half fast (Louis Armstrong Quotes) 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 in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo (Louis Armstrong Quotes) You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played (Louis Armstrong Quotes) 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, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong Quotes) Unless you know what it is I ain’t never going to be able to explain it to you (Louis Armstrong Quotes) The way they’re treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell (Louis Armstrong Quotes) I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that (Louis Armstrong Quotes) The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try (Louis Armstrong Quotes) My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden (Louis Armstrong Quotes) Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics (Louis Armstrong Quotes)

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