149 Quotes by Louis Armstrong

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

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

Love is talkative passion.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

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

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..