Louis Armstrong Quotes

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

Louis Armstrong

Jazz is what I play for a living.

Louis Armstrong

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Louis Armstrong

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong

The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

Louis Armstrong