149 Quotes by Louis Armstrong

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

There’s only two ways to sum up music; either it’s good or it’s bad. If it’s good you don’t mess about it, you just enjoy it.

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.

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.

There’s some folks, that, if they don’t know, you can’t tell ’em.

Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance.

When you’re dead, you’re done.

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

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.