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" I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything. "
Louis Armstrong
Ready
Warm
Up
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Anything
Never
" What we play is life. "
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Play
" 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. "
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Success
Time
" 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. "
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Right
Now
" All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. "
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Heard
Never
Sing
" The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over. "
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First
Goose
Time
" I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so. "
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Odds
Against
Play
" 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.' "
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Name
Think
Ugly
" 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. "
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See
Courage
Long
" You blows who you is. "
Louis Armstrong
Who
Blows
You
" We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that. "
Louis Armstrong
Together
Simple
Myself
" There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. "
Louis Armstrong
You
Tell
Some People
" I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I'd sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans. "
Louis Armstrong
Me
Singing
Thinking
" The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. "
Louis Armstrong
Things
Gone
Important
" There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. "
Louis Armstrong
Music
Bad
Good
" I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.' "
Louis Armstrong
Me
Say
Kiss
" We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. "
Louis Armstrong
Find
Notes
Other
" Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. "
Louis Armstrong
Stop
Retire
Musicians
" Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is. "
Louis Armstrong
World
Good
Kind
" Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five. "
Louis Armstrong
Musicians
Men
Memory
" 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
Tell
Melody
Well
" '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. "
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Together
Music
Enjoy
" When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.' "
Louis Armstrong
Thinking
Moment
Treat