„Wenn Du immer noch fragen musst, schäme Dich!“
— Louis Armstrong
auf die Frage, was Jazz sei
Geburtstag: 4. August 1901
Todesdatum: 6. Juli 1971
Andere Namen:Louis Daniel Armstrong
Louis Daniel „Satchmo“ Armstrong war ein amerikanischer Jazztrompeter und Sänger.
— Louis Armstrong
auf die Frage, was Jazz sei
— Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings
— Louis Armstrong
Context: 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 a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.
Context: 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 a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.
Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
— Louis Armstrong
Ebony magazine, November 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=G98DAAAAMBAJ&q=%22making+money+ain't+nothing+exciting+to+me%22+%22You+might+be+able+to+buy+a+little+better+booze+than+some+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%22&pg=PA138#v=onepage
— Louis Armstrong
Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al.: "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press Ltd 1970, page 25 <!-- Google book search-->
Often misquoted as "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (third edition)
— Louis Armstrong
As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1957)]
— Louis Armstrong
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (1954)