It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country. Louis Armstrong More Quotes by Louis Armstrong More Quotes From Louis Armstrong There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing. Louis Armstrong breathingfashionlong All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. Louis Armstrong musicsongfunny Give me a kiss to build a dream on Louis Armstrong kissingdreamgiving The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn. Louis Armstrong cuttingcrazyfighting You got to love to be able to play Louis Armstrong ableplay Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right. Louis Armstrong playermenthinking 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 musicnightmemories Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour. Louis Armstrong everydayblowtwo There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know. Louis Armstrong jazzsecrettwo It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship. Louis Armstrong good-manfeel-goodmen As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band. Louis Armstrong brass-bandsnew-orleanshome My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people. Louis Armstrong musicpeoplefirsts You've got to be good or as bad as the devil. Louis Armstrong be-gooddevil Love is talkative passion. Louis Armstrong passiondisappointmentlove-is Never play anything the same way twice. Louis Armstrong musicplayway 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 jazztwoway 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 catfundamentalstrying I'll bet right now most of the youngsters and hot club fans who hear the name Storyville hasn't the least idea that it consisted of some of the biggest prostitutes in the world ... Standing in their doorways nightly in their fine and beautiful negligees -- faintly calling to the boys as they passed their cribs. Louis Armstrong namesbeautifulboys The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell! Louis Armstrong governmentpeopleway I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing. Louis Armstrong jazzmusicneeds
