Louis Armstrong Quotes

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

‘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.

Seems to me, it aint the world that’s so bad but what we’re doin’ 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 it hadn’t been for Jazz, there wouldn’t be no rock and roll.

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.

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

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

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.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

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.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

If you don’t understand it, don’t mess with it.