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.
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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