Луи Армстронг цитаты

„Музыканты не выходят на пенсию; они заканчиваются, когда в них исчезает музыка.“

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Вариант: Музыканты не выходят на пенсию; они заканчиваются, когда в них исчезает музыка.

„То, что мы играем, — это жизнь.“

What we play is life.
Вариант: То, что мы играем, — это жизнь.

„Для джазового музыканта очень важна память об ушедшем.“

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Вариант: Для джазового музыканта очень важна память об ушедшем.

„Главное в жизни иметь цель, без нее жизнь это не жизнь.“

„Есть два вида музыки: плохая и хорошая. Я играю хорошую.“

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

„Вся музыка — народная. Я никогда не слышал, чтобы лошадь пела песню.“

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Вариант: Вся музыка — народная. Я никогда не слышал, чтобы лошадь пела песню.

„If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.“

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

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

„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.“

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (1954)

„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)]

„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 memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. “

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

„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)
Контексте: 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.
Контексте: 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.

„You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.“

„What we play is life.“

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

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