12 Louis Armstrong Quotes for You to Enjoy

Louis Armstrong

American Musician

Born: Aug 4, 1901

Died: Jul 6, 1971

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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is. Louis Armstrong

Life Music Good World Matter Kind Good Music Would Without Itself

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

Music Song Folk Folk Music Horse Never Sing Heard

When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an 'order from Al Capone,' Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: 'I think that Louis Armstrong is the world's greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.' Louis Armstrong

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'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat. Louis Armstrong

Music Good Man Together Heart Doctor Good Heart Lawyer Enjoy Gutter Guy Cat He Same Anybody Biggest Lowest

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

You People Some People Tell Some Know Them

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five. Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Louis Armstrong

Memory Important Gone Jazz Musician Jazz Musician Things

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for. Louis Armstrong

Time Family Courage People Old Long Long Time White Jewish People Seven Easily Admiration Folks See Only Could Had Taking Abuse Were Years Handing Poor Worked Much Whom Treatment Jewish

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over. Louis Armstrong

Time First Trombone Had Over Goose First Time Pimples Heard Jack

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong. Louis Armstrong

Life Me Made My Life Big Mouth Other Other Kids Everything Kids All My Life Pretty Except Stuck Knew Calling Armstrong Been Began Big Mouth Hit Now Nicknames Right Started

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that. Louis Armstrong

Myself Together Simple Try Encouragement Ambition Young Nothing Negroes Worthwhile Something Could Never He Instead Know Were Get Did Get Together Done Just Little Younger Really Show Even

I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I'd sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans. Louis Armstrong

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