American - Musician | August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
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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.'
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
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I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
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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.
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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.
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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
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