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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong
What we play is life.
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.
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