6 Louis Armstrong Quotes on Life

Louis Armstrong quotes on life

1. 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.

4. At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the 'mis-de' and you just got meaner and meaner..

6. If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

8. It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

9. Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the 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.

13. He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.