Louis Armstrong Quotes - Page 3

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• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Jazz, Remember

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• It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

  Louis Armstrong

  Communication, Way

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• I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Jazz, Spades

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• 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

  Beautiful, Boys, Names

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• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• 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

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• Red beans and ricely yours.

  Louis Armstrong

  Vegetables, Red, Beans

  Louis Armstrong, Thomas Brothers (2001). “Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [Bebop is] Chinese music.

  Louis Armstrong

  Chinese, Bebop, Chinese Music

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• Never play a thing the same way twice.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspirational, Music, Business

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• 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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• It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

  Louis Armstrong

  Country, America, World

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• 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

  Kings, Looks, Parades

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• You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Jazz, Knows

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• I've Got the World on a String.

  Louis Armstrong

  World, Strings

  Song: I've Got The World On A String

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

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Half, Kind

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• It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

  Louis Armstrong

  Country, Men, America

  "What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks" by Ben Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2014.

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• Jazz is what I play for a living.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Playing Jazz, Jazz

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• 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

  Beautiful, Heart, New Orleans

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• White folks still in the lead.

  Louis Armstrong

  White, Racism, Folks

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• 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

  Giving, Tunes, Dollars

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• A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Swings, Musician

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• If you still have to ask, shame on you

  Louis Armstrong

  Shame, Stills, Asks

  When asked what jazz is, in Max Jones et al. 'Salute to Satchmo' (1970) p. 25 (sometimes quoted as 'Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know').

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• Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.

  Louis Armstrong

  Able, Knows

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• When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

  Louis Armstrong

  Tea, Special, Feels

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