Louis Armstrong citáty

„Mám pre každého jednoduché pravidlo. Ak sa ku mne nesprávaš pekne, hanba ti.“

„Moja žena bola v zásade nezrelá. Kúpal som sa doma, a ona vošla a potopila mi lodičky.“

„Nenechám sa nazlostiť. Brať veci naľahko, to robí človeka zdravším a šťastnejším.“

„Život je ako trúbka. Keď do nej nefúkaš, nič z nej nevyjde.“

„Je sex prasacina? Iba keď sa robí správne.“

„Keby mi len dal Boh jasné znamenie! Niečo, ako uložiť na moje meno veľkú sumu v švajčiarskej banke.“

„Skončil som kurz rýchlo–čítania a dokázal som prečítať Vojnu a mier za dvadsať minút. Je to o Rusku.“

„Sú dobrodinci, ktorí sú radi, keď ich prichytia pri čine.“

„Sú to nádherné zlaté vreckové hodinky. Som na ne hrdý. Predal mi ich môj starý otec na smrteľnej posteli.“

“What we play is life.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”

“Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing 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.”

“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. … You might be able to buy a little better booze than some 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.”

“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”

“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in … Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.”

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. ”

“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”

“If you still have to ask, shame on you”

“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 a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.”