Louis Armstrong Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• What we play is life.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Inspirational Life, Live Life

• Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, African American, Jazz

• If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Jazz, Asks

  "Jazz Giants of the 20th Century/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2007.

• If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Life, Music, Practice

• Never play anything the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Play, Way

• Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Heart, Jazz

• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Soul

• You blows who you is.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Jazz

• Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Half, Kind

• Never play a thing the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspirational, Music, Business

• 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

  Music, Memories, Night

• I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Needs, Jazz

• 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

  Music, People, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Couple, Blow

• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

• If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Jazz

• Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Balance, Music Is

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