Quotes of Louis Armstrong:
"When a ... player ... 'feels' the music taking hold of him so strong that he can (take the) ... rhythms and the melody and toss them around as he wants without losing his way."
"Music was in my blood since the day i was born."
"My good sense and my mother-wit and knowing how to treat and respect the feelings of others people, that's all I've needed through life."
"A little tap dancing around between the numbers to get laughs."
"I can never stop loving Joe Oliver."
"You can never escape the butterflies, no matter how long you've been in the business."
"In the later years they called me 'Iron Lips' or 'Brass lips' because I could blow more high C in succession then any other trumpeter in the world ..... I like to get way up down there and hold on to that clear note."
"I never cared about being a band leader; there was to much quarreling over pretty money matters. I just wanted to blow my horn peacefully."
"If it had not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today."
"We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've got to fine the rest of the notes yourself."
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
"What we play is life."
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
"I never did want to be no big star."
"I never have tried to prove nothing, just always wanted to give a good show. My life has been music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it to the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause you're there for is to please the people."
"Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad, but we're doing 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."
"Joe Oliver has always been my inspirational idol. No trumpet player ever had the fire that Oliver had, man he could really punch a number."
"When we cracked down on the first note that night on the Lincoln Gardens, I knew things would go well for me."
"When a ... player ... 'feels' the music taking hold of him so strong that he can (take the) ... rhythms and the melody and toss them around as he wants without losing his way."
"Music was in my blood since the day i was born."
"My good sense and my mother-wit and knowing how to treat and respect the feelings of others people, that's all I've needed through life."
"A little tap dancing around between the numbers to get laughs."
"I can never stop loving Joe Oliver."
"You can never escape the butterflies, no matter how long you've been in the business."
"In the later years they called me 'Iron Lips' or 'Brass lips' because I could blow more high C in succession then any other trumpeter in the world ..... I like to get way up down there and hold on to that clear note."
"I never cared about being a band leader; there was to much quarreling over pretty money matters. I just wanted to blow my horn peacefully."
"If it had not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today."
"We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've got to fine the rest of the notes yourself."
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
"What we play is life."
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
"I never did want to be no big star."
"I never have tried to prove nothing, just always wanted to give a good show. My life has been music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it to the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause you're there for is to please the people."
"Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad, but we're doing 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."
"Joe Oliver has always been my inspirational idol. No trumpet player ever had the fire that Oliver had, man he could really punch a number."
"When we cracked down on the first note that night on the Lincoln Gardens, I knew things would go well for me."