I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or anything. Louis Armstrong Read Quote
Well, I tell you… the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines. Louis Armstrong Read Quote
When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that Louis Armstrong is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.’ Louis Armstrong Read Quote
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so. Louis Armstrong Read Quote
We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself. Louis Armstrong Read Quote
I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need. Louis Armstrong Read Quote