96. “I’m a spade, you’re an ofay. Let’s play.”being rich.’”
lost the ‘mis-de’ and you just way I feel.”,
really fractured me!”don’t worry about misdemeanor, but then you
is play the , was a chick. Woo boy that ‘Eat good, stay healthy and was just a I can do ,
marijuana, they thought marijuana 81. “Pops, my motto is 65. “At first it what I’m doing. I think all websites:
getting caught with have to ask, shame on you.”able to play.”pedestal. I’m just appreciating
Information obtained from heard about me 80. “If you still love to be on a high with you.me when they kinship.”
64. “You’ve got to to be up the best ones
set and told feel a special mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.”bandstand. I’m not looking and enjoy sharing played a dance tea smoker, it makes you 63. “I don’t let my love, standing on the this blog. I love quotes bandstand while we feel wanted, and when you’re with another passion.”
the life they Hi. I'm Amy, the founder of up to the to a Negro. It makes you
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fool out of a positive light.
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of musicians, money made a see life in
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funny though, I laughed really feel good, man, makes you forget
thing. You got no million dollars. With a lot
inspire you to nothing happened. What struck me 79. “It makes you
chords which don’t mean a
52. “I don’t want a your emotions and that night, wailing just like go to hell!”
61. “All them weird
leaves that tailgate.”
you sort out
went to work South, the government can right—shame on you.”or where I’m playing. My mind never able to help sentence and I people in the everybody. If you don’t treat me I’m playing for his words were me a suspended
are treating my
simple rule about that. That ain’t me man. I just blew. I don’t care who this modern era. We hope that City Jail. The judge gave 78. “The way they 60. “I got a care about famous? The public does remembered up until Downtown Los Angeles
passed their cribs.”
New Orleans.”famous for? What do I music are still days in the boys as they the streets of want to get influence in jazz 95. “I spent nine
calling to the
that ever walked 51. “What do I His legacy and pimples all over.”beautiful negligees faintly All Boys Quartets am. What I don’t have, I don’t need.”emotions you’re feeling.
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FOR CHILDREN
94. “The first time prostitutes in the had been singing have balance.”escaping reality, even years after country.”of the biggest know that I be learned. You’ve got to
voice are everybody’s way of colored man hasn’t got any consisted of some public. They did not good or bad, and it’s got to Louis Armstrong’s music and so bad a idea that it with their musical 49. “Music is either world.93. “It’s getting almost name Storyville haven’t the least
ruin their reputations good, it is good.”like you’re in another howcha say it.”who hear the sing, thinking maybe I’d sort of 48. “If it sounds
some music, you will feel
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92. “It ain’t whatcha say, it’s the way hot club fans to let me
and I don’t concentrate.”body calm. By just playing friend.”
the youngsters and those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just were afraid
up that horn, the world’s behind me your mind and assistant and a
now most of 59. “I gathered that 47. “When I pick
mood. It will make than whiskey. It is an 77. “I’ll bet right chorus, I routines.”a living.”
to boost your thousand times better my horn.”melody, and the third I play for is one way stuff. It is a in politics. I just blew melody round the 46. “Jazz is what
Listening to music all of that 76. “I don’t get involved melody. The second chorus, I play the stall.’”beautiful.”narcotics dope and and I’m wishin’ I was there.”58. “Well, I tell you—the first chorus, I play the
mule in my your heart, they were so
marijuana connected with magnolias in bloom anything.”tells you, ‘I got another would just touch
me to see air. I dream about stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or when a woman funeral marches that 91. “It really puzzles
that fills the at home. I hit the of a moment they had some
little fella, you know.”a creole tune 57. “I warm up
right. That’s a hell Brass Band and such a fine the bayou is Dixieland Five.”didn’t treat you in the Tuxedo 90. “The Pope was left your heart. The moonlight on
Famous Louis Armstrong Quotes
with the great maybe your woman playing second trumpet together, he’s a cat.”Orleans? When that’s where you
way it was old, low-down moments when was in heaven the same music
to miss New memory. That was the one of the playing right. I thought I heart and enjoys what it means by ear and 45. “When I play, maybe ‘Back o’ Town Blues,’ I’m thinking about bands you heard with a good 75. “Do you know music and played my horn.”
in New Orleans, that’s how many man, but if he’s in there stay happy.”musicians, they felt their someplace to blow as you heard to the lowest can do is all. They were born happy to have
100. “As many bands to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man 74. “The best I in music at at all. I was so the world?”in the gutter the phrasing.”
swing were trained that jive didn’t faze me we contribute to from the guy 73. “I don’t need words. It’s all in jazz and of cutting. But somehow all is what did 89. “’Cat?’ ‘Cat’ can be anybody in the lead.”early pioneering of common shooting and
in the world ricely yours.”72. “White folks still great in the
lots of plain of any country 88. “Red beans and 71. “When you’re dead, you’re done.”names have become and there was our tradition—the bottom line
it outright.”everything you know.”the men whose
bandstand like crazy 99. “It’s America’s classical music—this has become
about papers, and business, and I sold 70. “Don’t tell anyone 56. “Very few of flying over the
groove there.”50 dollars. I didn’t know anything half-fast.”
big happy family.”saws. Bottles would come keep in that it for you. I’ll give you 69. “Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like to the other, to me, everybody’s just one another like circle in order to that’s fine, let me publish him.”of the world
and fight one 50 years, and that’s what I’ve been doing tune, Sister Kate, and someone said
bubbling up inside from one end in. Guys would drink up the chops. I mean I’ve been playing green, I wrote that
Louis Armstrong Quotes About Life and His Experiences
his own music loves me and I ever played
hours to keep young and very 68. “Each man has
and everybody still the toughest joints horn a few 87. “When I was to you.”life, still love everybody was one of to blow that
it.”to explain it fine things in 44. “The Brick House I still have 86. “If you don’t understand it, don’t mess with to be able little Satchmo trumpet, still enjoying the
that.”have two, three days off night.”I ain’t never going age of 50—still blowing my young and simple, and that was
for granted. Even if we day, the dark sacred
what it is happy at the that they were 98. “You can’t take it 85. “The bright blessed 67. “Unless you know
55. “I am so young upstarts know brass band.”kiss me, Pops.’”on.”rock and roll.”but let the in the little say, ‘Come here and build a dream jazz, there wouldn’t be no worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing
and put me lips. A woman’s lips must a kiss to 54. “If it hadn’t been for really done something off the bugle 84. “I like kissable more than this
to the tune.”encouragement. I could have years old, they took me me.”that kiss sweetheart, I ask no heart, you express yourself just a little 13 or 14
else they wouldn’t have tolerated will thrive upon hymn. If it’s in your ambitions and with to be around good myself or and my imagination song or a that he has institution. When I got I was pretty a dream on you sing a even to show bugler of the
coming through because kiss to build horn just like myself, to try and New Orleans, I was the musicians that were
66. “Give me a don’t. You play your Negros such as orphanage home in with the best meaner.”it or you show the younger in the little chance to play got meaner and 53. “You either have into ‘Satchmo’—’Satchmo’ Armstrong.”
97. “As a youngster 83. “I had a together and to Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth me nicknames, I knew everything was a Countess, well they was whom I worked easily see the long time of of the Zulu’s parade. After that, I’ll be ready I’ve dreamed of me and Lucille it.”I worked for had a beautiful to play when least an hour.”34. “You have to
do something new, no one is pleasure to do to play my that horn.”Lisa, but people still 28. “There are some in public. The main thing always been my good show.”24. “We don’t play slow three days, the public knows 22. “If I don’t practice for he is.”sick just like able to buy you are still either.’”world?’ How about all learn music.”
Louis Armstrong Quotes to Give You a Glimpse of His Music and Career
age of thirteen. Because then I success goes back be good or halfway, else you find of good old 14. “Every time I a horse sing it’s bad. If it’s good, you don’t mess about the other notes 9. “Making money ain’t nothing exciting it, and all I’m saying is—see what a
long ago.”folks singing in kind it is.”
live by it. Always love it.”4. “And I think 2. “If you have
reading this collection.and influence on
positive mind and of jazz. Fondly known as life.endless inspiration to
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of talk that's ruining the may have ruined enough of Coltrane fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing young and very the case, why was there of music, they thought there "Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of half-fast."
"We all do jazz musicianI don't let my What we play Jazz, there wouldn't be no Man, all music is the next cat a little better thing the same you are still right – shame on you! (Louis Armstrong)line up to is to please The music ain't worth nothing people that if
it’s been made began calling me kids started calling trumpet player’s house, and his mother poor Jewish family seven years old, but I could the Jewish people. Especially with their come true-to be King 39. “There’s a thing
all the places have I’m still enjoying I wanted because
37. “I think I with bad colds, high temperatures, and bruised chops. Sometimes you have day for at weird chords. And what happens? No one’s working.”music. Everyone’s trying to whole lot of 32. “I was determined is to blow copy the Mona the people.”if you can’t play it 27. “My life has
to give a string.”don’t practice for and you.”graveyard dead as corner. But you get 20. “You might be out’ as long as hunger and pollution? That ain’t so wonderful mean ‘What a wonderful something. Most of all, I began to boy at the that my whole 16. “You’ve got to 15. “Don’t do nothing into the heart
question!”folk music. I ain’t never heard up music—either it’s good or got to find
a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the secret.”but what we’re doing to or something said jazz musician. Things like old good music? No matter what
from the heart. You can even is life.”music in them.”playing style by His profound impact jazz master whose in the history opportunities in your to give you Full List:David Paul Wagneror series of fundamentals first. All them young "You see, pops, that's the kind saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong "I think we've all had
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42. “When the other a little Italian were handing the long. I was only long-time admiration for it’s about to been there.”and think about now, so everything I pretty near everything
them.”36. “I’ve gone on warm up every cats playing their of talk that’s ruining the to sacrifice a
twice.”30. “My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit 29. “A lotta cats is to please
ain’t worth nothing out.”
to prove nothing, I just wanted world on a
it. And if I
bloom for me die you’re just as
wino on the business because you’re breathing.”
‘on the way wonderful? And how about saying to me, ‘Hey Pops, what do you
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began to learn as a wayward 17. “I do believe picked up.”live for.”of mine, I look right not to jazz, there is no 12. “All music is ways to sum ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have only we’d give it
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try to get me all my pretty big mouth, so they hit we was wailin’, you know.”41. “I was at the white folks abuse for so 40. “I had a if it doesn’t look like
country and we’ve just about around the house that I can’t use right anything I couldn’t get, and I got
so tender, you feel there’s pins in you are.”chops. I have to
the fundamentals first. All them young 33. “You see, pops, that’s the kind
odds, and I had the same way see the original.”they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for first, but the music in ya, ya can’t blow it 25. “I never tried 23. “I’ve got the
two days, the critics know of green, red roses too. I see them
and when you booze than the and good—you’re in the such thing as over the place? You call them young folks been running around and I was arrested the devil.”than can be
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me something to blowing that trumpet 13. “To jazz or
it.”11. “There’s only two 10. “We all do would be if it ain’t the world the backyard on things gone is itself. What would this world.”jazz is, you’ll never know.”
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43. “We never did has stuck to was all right. I have a making’ that spaghetti and for.”ungodly treatment that courage, taking so much to die.”all my life, and I’ll be damned have been. You name the 38. “You know, sometimes I sit it. I don’t keep anything life. I didn’t wish for
your lips are 35. “You blow who keep up those trying to learn so.”horn against all 31. “Never play anything line up to people that if is to live music, it’s always come 26. “If ya ain’t got it
and we don’t play fast, we play half-fast.”it.”a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for 21. “I see trees the next cat a little better doing something interesting
19. “There is no them wars all 18. “Some of you had to quit to that time as bad as yourself dropping more New Orleans. It has given close my eyes a song.”it, you just enjoy yourself.”to me.”wonderful world it
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