When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright. Louis Armstrong More Quotes by Louis Armstrong More Quotes From Louis Armstrong I 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 music age success time 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 mouth my-life me life I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything. Louis Armstrong warm ready stage home '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 good man music heart 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 family courage time people 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 get-together simple together The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over. Louis Armstrong over first first-time time I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.' Louis Armstrong kiss woman me lips 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 gangster face words world There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. Louis Armstrong some-people know you people There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. Louis Armstrong bad good music play two When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.' Louis Armstrong woman moment you thinking 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 my-life me singing life Well, 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 Armstrong well tell you melody
