149 Quotes by Louis Armstrong

I don’t need words. It’s all in the phrasing.

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

If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out.

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

You got to love to be able to play.

You either have it or you don’t. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it’s in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

We don’t play slow and we don’t play fast, we play half fast.

There is no such thing as ‘on the way out’ as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you’re in the business because you’re breathing.

I’m a spade, you’re an ofay. Let’s play.