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
garden land
Way down yonder in New Orleans/In the land of dreamy scenes/There's a garden of Eden/You know what I mean.
ask gotta
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
folk heard horse music sing song
All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song
adjusted bad far felt guard life national san start wound
I felt bad at first. I'm like, what are we doing in Utah? I thought we were going to San Antonio like the National Guard told us. Man, we wound up far away from the south, but I've adjusted and I'm about to start my life over here in Utah.
blessed clouds colors love people red roses sacred shaking skies trees wonderful
I see trees of green........ red roses tooI see em bloom..... for me and for youAnd I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.I see skies of blue..... clouds of whiteBright blessed days....dark sacred nightsAnd I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the skyAre also on the faces.....of people ..going byI see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you doTheyre really sayin......I love you.
american-musician good kinds music
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
asked
If you have to ask, then you'll never know (when asked 'what is jazz?')
jazz jazz-music
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
cat sick littles
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
cat people lines
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
chinese chinese-music bebop
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
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.
marijuana firsts lost
At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
blow two everyday
Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour.