I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. - Louis Armstrong
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
- 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 … - 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 …
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. - Louis Armstrong
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up. - Louis Armstrong
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. - Louis Armstrong
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for. - Louis Armstrong
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.
[Bebop is] Chinese music. - Louis Armstrong
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong
What we play is life.
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