Louis Armstrong Quotes

Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what 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.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

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

What we play is life.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

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

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

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.