149 Quotes by Louis Armstrong

Red beans and ricely yours.

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

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.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah....

Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.

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!

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.