149 Quotes by Louis Armstrong

"You blows who you is."

"All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to"

"Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it."

"Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for."

"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you."

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn."

"If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it."

"Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the 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."

"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original."

"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend."