Louis Armstrong

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.


— Louis Armstrong


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What we play is life.


— Louis Armstrong


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If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong


— Louis Armstrong


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Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.


— Louis Armstrong


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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.


— Louis Armstrong


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You blows who you is.


— Louis Armstrong


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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.


— Louis Armstrong


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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.


— Louis Armstrong


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


— Louis Armstrong


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


— Louis Armstrong


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About Louis Armstrong

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Did you know about Louis Armstrong?

Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over" whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 – July 6 1971) nicknamed Satchmo or Pops was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans Louisiana. With his instantly-recognizable gravelly voice Armstrong was also an influential singer demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes.