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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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Louis Armstrong
actor, street artist, trumpeter, bandleader, conductor, jazz musician, singer, film score composer, film actor, songwriter, radio personality, recording artist, writer, orchestra leader
1901 – 1971
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. Armstrong received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972. His influence crossed musical genres, with inductions into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, among others.
All Quotes by Louis Armstrong
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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.
— Louis Armstrong
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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 graveyard dead as he is.
— Louis Armstrong
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If you still have to ask, shame on you
— Louis Armstrong
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
— Louis Armstrong
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
— Louis Armstrong
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
— Louis Armstrong