Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You got to love to be able to play
Louis Armstrong
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
Bandleader
Conductor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Radio Personality
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
Pops
Louis Daniel Armstrong
Dipper
Love
Able
Play
More quotes by Louis Armstrong
At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the mis-de and you just got meaner and meaner.
Louis Armstrong
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
Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
Louis Armstrong
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
Louis Armstrong
White folks still in the lead.
Louis Armstrong
Never play anything the same way twice.
Louis Armstrong
It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
Louis Armstrong
Red beans and ricely yours.
Louis Armstrong
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
Louis Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
Louis Armstrong
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
Louis Armstrong
Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...
Louis Armstrong
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
Louis Armstrong
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Louis Armstrong
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.
Louis Armstrong
You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
Louis Armstrong
