Louis Armstrong quotes

" There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. " # Music

" I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! " # Attitude # Friends and Friendship # Shame

" All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. " # Music

" There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. " # Truth

" Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be better. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying. " # Voting

" Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. " # Ask # Change # Army and Navy

" What we play is life. " # Life and Living

" 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. " # Writers and Writing

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

" If you gotta ask, you'll never know. " # Risk