Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, April 22, 2015 – Louis Armstrong
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, April 22, 2015 – Louis Armstrong
“What we play is life.”
And
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
And
“I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. 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.”
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“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn…”
And
“We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.”
And
“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”
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“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”
And
“All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song”
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“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.”
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“He was the only musician who ever lived, who can’t be replaced by someone.” Bing Crosby on Louis Armstrong
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“He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.” Duke Ellington on Louis Armstrong
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“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.”
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“Some of you young folks been saying to me, “Hey Pops, what you mean ‘What a wonderful world’? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either.” Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that’s so bad but what we’re doin’ to it. And all I’m saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love baby, love. That’s the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we’d solve lots more problems. And then this world would be better. That’s wha’ ol’ Pops keeps saying.” Spoken intro to “What a Wonderful World”
Wikipedia: Louis Armstrong
