I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGI was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGAll music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGMusic is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGMusicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGThere are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGWhat we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGWell, I tell you. the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGI warm up at home. I hit the stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or anything.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGThe first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGThere is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGIf you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGI never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGThe memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
LOUIS ARMSTRONGI do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG