Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in jazz...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth4 August 1900
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
music jazz knows
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
music couple blow
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
music blow jazz
You blows who you is.
cat people lines
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
life practice two
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.
funny music song
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
player men thinking
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.
music african-american jazz
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
music memories night
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
music blow soul
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
music heart jazz
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
chinese chinese-music bebop
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
mean jazz remember
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
cat trying fundamentals
You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.