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
mean jazz asks
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
mess ifs
If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
stars real boys
I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!
music people firsts
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
play guitar half
We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
done jazz jazz-music
When you're dead, you're done.
blessed dark night
I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world
play playing-jazz jazz
Jazz is what I play for a living.
world strings
I've Got the World on a String,
mouths
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand....
giving dollars paper
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.
finding-yourself dropping halfway
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
music blow ifs
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
relationship simple my-attitude
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.