Louis Armstrong Jazz Quotations

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

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

When you're dead, you're done.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

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.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!