Quotes by Louis Armstrong

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

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

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, youll never know.”

“If it sounds good, it is good.”

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.”

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

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

“'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.”

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

“I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly trea...”

“What we play is life.”

“There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.”

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

“There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.”

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

“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 lo...”

“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?...”

“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”

“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as ...”

“If you still have to ask, shame on you”