Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Sele...
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“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.”
“Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.”
“The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!”
Source: Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings
“It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.”
“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”
Source: Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings
“If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.”
“Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.”
“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.”
“Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.”