Louis Armstrong

"The greatest thing you have is your dreams"

"My music speaks what words cannot"

"There's nothing in the world more beautiful than music"

"I always have love and respect for jazz"

"Give us our flowers while we're still living"

"Life is too short to play it safe"

"I've never worried about what people think of my music"

"The message in my music is one of hope and joy"

"I believe in giving back to the community"

"My legacy is the music I leave behind"

"I think we have only one life and we should live it as happily as possible."

"What we play is life."

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

"The nice thing about being a musician is you get to express yourself."

"It's a wonderful life, so I just try to enjoy it."

"In music we live, we express ourselves, and we inspire others."

"I never tried to prove nothing, just always played my music."

"The memory of things gone is important to us. Keepsakes and souvenirs, time-pcs."

"Thank you for the privilege of being able to do what I do best."

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

"I believe two people together make a better world."

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

"I played what I felt."

"You got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

"I never tried to prove nothing, I just always played my trumpet best I could."

"The secret is in doing, not in saying you're doing it."

"I see cats all the time who are not pimps."

"When you're playing, you're thinking about your life."

"I always tried to make it sound good to my own ear."

"The real ammunition of music is love."