Louis Armstrong Quotes

I Had A Chance To Play With The Best Musicians That Were Coming Through Because I Was Pretty Good Myself Or Else They Wouldn't Have Tolerated With Me.

A Lot Of The Musicians Asked Me If When I Hit My High-cs On The Records I Had A Clarinet Take The Notes. Some [thought] I Had Invented Some Kind Of Gadget So I Could Play High Register. They Weren't Satisfied Until They Handed Me A Trumpet That They Had With Them And Had Me Swing It. Then They Cheered.

When You're With Another Tea Smoker It Makes You Feel A Special Kinship.

If You Still Have To Ask, Shame On You

We Don't Play Slow And We Don't Play Fast, We Play Half Fast

It's Getting Almost So Bad A Colored Man Hasn't Got Any Country.

When I Was Young And Very Green, I Worte That Tune, Sister Kate, And Someone Said That's Fine, Let Me Publish It For You. I'll Give You Fifty Dollars. I Didn't Know Nothing About Papers, And Business, And I Sold It Outright.

Unless You Know What It Is I Ain't Never Going To Be Able To Explain It To You.

White Folks Still In The Lead.

There's A Thing I've Dreamed Of All My Life, And I'll Be Damned If It Don't Look Like It's About To Come True-to Be King Of The Zulu's Parade. After That, I'll Be Ready To Die.

You Will Never Know What The Meaning Of Jazz Is If Ask What It Means.

As Many Bands As You Heard [in New Orleans], That's How Many Bands You Heard Playing Right. I Thought I Was In Heaven Playing Second Trumpet In The Tuxedo Brass Band -- And They Had Some Funeral Marches That Would Just Touch Your Heart, They Were So Beautiful.