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
music memories night
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
music needs
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
music blow jazz
You blows who you is.
mean jazz remember
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
music heart jazz
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
heart eye new-orleans
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.
relationship simple my-attitude
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
music jazz knows
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
music blow soul
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
life practice two
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.
baby war mean
Some of you young folks been saying to me, 'Hey Pops, what you mean what a wonderful world? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? They ain't so wonderful either.' But how about listening to old Pops for a minute. It seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad, but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That's the secret. Yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And man, this world would be a gasser.
memories important gone
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
cat sick littles
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
cat people lines
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.