Quotes by Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Bebop

Chinese

Chinese Music

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren’t satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

Musician

Play

Swings

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

Cat

Lines

People

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

Funny

Music

Song

All them weird chords which don’t mean a thing…you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

Jazz

Mean

Remember

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

Light

Thinking

Words Of Wisdom

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

Brass Bands

Home

New Orleans

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that’s how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band — and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

Beautiful

Heart

New Orleans

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the “mis-de” and you just got meaner and meaner.

Firsts

Lost

Marijuana

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that’s where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I’m wishin’ I was there.

Dream

Heart

Mean

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African American

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Asks

Baby

Balance

Be Good

Beans

Beautiful

Bebop

Blessed

Blow

Boys

Brass Bands

Breathing

Business

Can Do

Cat

Chance

Chinese

Chinese Music

Communication

Country

Couple

Crazy

Cutting

Dark

Devil

Disappointment

Dollars

Done

Dope

Dream

Dropping

Everyday

Eye

Fashion

Feel Good

Feels

Fighting

Finding Yourself

Firsts

Folks

Fundamentals

Funny

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Good Man

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Quotes by Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

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

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

All them weird chords which don’t mean a thing…you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that’s how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band — and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the “mis-de” and you just got meaner and meaner.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that’s where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I’m wishin’ I was there.

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