Zitat des Tages von Louis Armstrong:
'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.
You blows who you is.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.
When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.
What we play is life.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.