Louis Armstrong

"What we play is life"

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know"

"I think we have only one life and life is now"

"Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music"

"There are two kinds of music, the good kind and the other kind"

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song"

"When you got a dream, you don't count the costs"

"I greet friends with a big hug and that's the same in every country"

"My whole life has been happiness and music, baby"

"Believing in yourself is the first step to success"

"The nice thing about doing a crossword is you feel like you accomplished something"

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we talk"

"Jazz should not be all come-hither, all sex. It should be strength and dignity"

"Just take it one day at a time"

"A good deed a day keeps the devil away"

"Real music to me is freedom"

"I always try to be nice to people on the way up, knowing I'll meet them on the way down"

"Enthusiasm is a must"

"My life will always be that of a joyful man"

"Art and life are inseparable"

"This whole universe, it's a love thing you know"

"I see now that if I had screamed and fought my biological sex, I would not be here as I am"

"Why always 'no'? Why not 'yes'?"

"The beauty of this instrument that you blow in and play from your heart"

"There is no such thing as an underrated or overrated musician. Musicians are just musicians"

"I pick up my horn and play what I feel"

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future"

"Music means freedom to me"

"America is a country where they don't care how high you climb"

"When I come to town I stay happy"