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Discover the thoughtful Quotes of Louis Armstrong, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history. Motivational Quotes of Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong

I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I’d sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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.’

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Well, I tell you… the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Cat?’ ‘Cat’ can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he’s in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he’s a cat.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions – and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it’s been made into ‘Satchmo’ – ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that Louis Armstrong is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.’

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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

– Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need.

– Louis Armstrong

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