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Louis Armstrong
6 quotes
“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (1954)
“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1967)]
“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some 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.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ebony magazine, November 1964
“If you still have to ask, shame on you”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al.: "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press Ltd 1970, page 25
“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.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it ain't 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 give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)