Louis Armstrong citations

Louis Armstrong, né le 4 août 1901 à La Nouvelle-Orléans en Louisiane et mort le 6 juillet 1971 à New York, également connu sous les surnoms de « Dippermouth », « Satchmo » et « Pops », est un musicien afro-américain de jazz.

D'une musique de folklore afro-américaine enracinée dans le gospel et le blues traditionnel et enfermée dans un terroir, Armstrong a fait un courant musical national et populaire à vocation universelle. Son talent de trompettiste, son charisme, ses qualités d'homme de scène et sa personnalité généreuse ont forgé au fil du temps sa renommée internationale. Il a créé un nouveau style vocal, le scat, ce qui a fait de lui l'un des chanteurs de jazz les plus influents de son époque. Durant plus de quarante ans, de tournées en tournées, Louis Armstrong restera le meilleur ambassadeur du jazz à travers le monde entier. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. août 1901 – 6. juillet 1971   •   Autres noms Louis Daniel Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong: Citations en anglais

“What we play is life.”

Variante: What we play is life.
Source: Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

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

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

“Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing 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.”

Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
Contexte: 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.
Contexte: 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.

“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. … You 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.”

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

“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”

As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1957)]

“If you still have to ask, shame on you”

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
Often misquoted as "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (third edition)

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