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Louis Armstrong Quotes



Quotes by Louis Armstrong - (14 quotes)

Louis Armstrong - From the Advice category:

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Aging category:

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Audience category:

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)

Louis Armstrong - From the Copying category:

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Criticism category:

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right – shame on you! (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Fashion category:

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Improvisation category:

Never play a thing the same way twice. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Money category:

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Music category:

Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard no horse sing a song, have you? (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Music category:

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Obsession category:

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn... (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Play category:

What we play is life. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Potential category:

If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong - From the Words category:

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand. (Louis Armstrong)