Tag: Louis Armstrong
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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
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We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions – and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.
Louis Armstrong
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need.
Louis Armstrong
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Well, I tell you… the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.
Louis Armstrong
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When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.’
Louis Armstrong
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I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I’d sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong
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We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
Louis Armstrong
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You blows who you is.
Louis Armstrong
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I like kissable lips. A woman’s lips must say, ‘Come here and kiss me, Pops.’
Louis Armstrong