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
dream heart mean
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.
music play way
Never play a thing the same way twice.
song heart play
You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.
music play way
Never play anything the same way twice.
music couple blow
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
music people firsts
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
beautiful boys names
I'll bet right now most of the youngsters and hot club fans who hear the name Storyville hasn't the least idea that it consisted of some of the biggest prostitutes in the world ... Standing in their doorways nightly in their fine and beautiful negligees -- faintly calling to the boys as they passed their cribs.
music blow ifs
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
two way jazz
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
player men thinking
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.
music african-american jazz
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
chinese chinese-music bebop
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
funny music song
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
dream kissing imagination
Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.