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
play playing-jazz jazz
Jazz is what I play for a living.
finding-yourself dropping halfway
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
music half kind
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.
play jazz spades
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
disappointment passion love-is
Love is talkative passion.
shame stills ifs
If you still have to ask, shame on you
devil be-good
You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
music rocks rock-and-roll
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
home years brass-bands
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.
play musician chance
I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.
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.
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.
mean blow order
You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.