You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

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• Louis Armstrong:

  I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure t

• Louis Armstrong:

  There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

• Louis Armstrong:

  When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the ma

• Louis Armstrong:

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

• Louis Armstrong:

  You blows who you is.

• Louis Armstrong:

  When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when

• Louis Armstrong:

  I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

• Louis Armstrong:

  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

• Louis Armstrong:

  There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

• Louis Armstrong:

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