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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and 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 the history of jazz. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

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

African American, Jazz, Music, Notes

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.

Baby, Mean, Pops, War, Wars, Yeah

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.

Blow, Couple, Down, Gate, Hello, Music

I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

Boys, Gave, Jail, Judge, Real, Stars

It's America's classical music. . . this becomes our tradition. . . the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world?. . . we contributed Louis Armstrong

America, Contributed, Country, Tradition, World

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

Ask, Jazz, Know, Knows, Music

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.

Close, Eye, Heart, New Orleans, Orleans, Trumpet

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Bebop, Chinese, Chinese Music, Music

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

Inspiring, Music, Musicians, Retirement, Stop

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.

Know, Life, Music, Practice, Three

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Everybody, Inspirational, Relationship, Right, Rule, Simple

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.

Bugle, Home, New Orleans, Orleans, Orphanage, Years

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you. " I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

Appreciation, Baby, Goin, Gratitude, Love, Yeah

Never play a thing the same way twice.

Business, Inspirational, Music, Play, Thing, Twice

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Cat, Copy, Lines, Lotta, Mona, People

You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

Bad, Be Good, Devil, Good

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

Folk, Funny, Horse, Music, Sing, Song

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.

Firsts, Live, Music, People, Thing

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

Dollars, Fifty, Giving, Nothing, Tunes, Worte

The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. . . Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

Bottles, Crazy, Cutting, Fighting, Played, Toughest

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