“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
“We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"What we play is life."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"When you're dead, you're done."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
"If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll."
—Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)