Louis Armstrong

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1901 age 0

   Born

2. 1969 age 68

   CreditHello, Dolly!

3. 1971 age 69

   Died

• WRWilliam H. Reynolds1 title
• LDLester Dorr1 title
• GWGuy Wilkerson1 title
• SCScatman Crothers1 title
• ELErnest Lehman1 title
• BCBilly Curtis1 title
• JOJ. Pat O'Malley1 title
• POPatrick O'Moore1 title
• HSHarry Stradling1 title
• JSJohn DeCuir, Sr.1 title

• 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.

  Louis Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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 ain't 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.

  Louis Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Louis Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Louis Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If you still have to ask, shame on you

  Louis Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0