Louis Armstrong Quotes

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.

When I play, maybe ‘Back o’ Town Blues,’ I’m thinking about one of the old, low-down moments – when maybe your woman didn’t treat you right. That’s a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, ‘I got another mule in my stall.’

What we play is life.

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

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.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right – shame on you.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.