Louis Armstrong Quotes: top 69 famous quotes about Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Louis Armstrong quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous 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. — Sarah Vowell

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

What a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast. — Louis Armstrong

If you still have to ask, shame on you — Louis Armstrong

You got to love to be able to play — Louis Armstrong

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. — J. D. Souther

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson

You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. — Louis Armstrong

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

Jazz is what I play for a living. — Louis Armstrong

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. — Philip Levine

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question! — Louis Armstrong

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone. — Bing Crosby

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know. Louis Armstrong — Louis Armstrong

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. — Louis Armstrong

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it. — Louis Armstrong

Love is talkative passion. — Louis Armstrong

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play. — Louis Armstrong

Red beans and ricely yours. — Louis Armstrong

We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country. — Louis Armstrong

I've Got the World on a String, — Louis Armstrong

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. — Sally Field

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. — Louis Armstrong

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn. — Louis Armstrong

White folks still in the lead. — Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about. — Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride. — Bobby Hackett

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong. — Tony Bennett

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance. — Louis Armstrong

If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. — Louis Armstrong

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand ... — Louis Armstrong

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing. — Louis Armstrong

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

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. — Louis Armstrong

What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong

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 — Al Hirt

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong

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

There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. — Louis Armstrong

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

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast — Louis Armstrong

The best I can do is stay happy. — Louis Armstrong

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means. — Louis Armstrong

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played — Miles Davis

Never play anything the same way twice. — Louis Armstrong

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it. — Louis Armstrong

You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. — Louis Armstrong

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you. — Louis Armstrong

If you don't understand it, don't mess with it. — Louis Armstrong

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

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong

Never play a thing the same way twice. — Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. — Stanley Crouch

Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you. — Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. — Al Stewart

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing ... you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to — Louis Armstrong

The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night — Louis Armstrong

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up. — Louis Armstrong

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him. — Louis Armstrong

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could. — Eddie Condon