Louis Armstrong

"I went to school, it was nothing special."

"I represent what the Bible says, which is love thy neighbor."

"You know you never can tell about a band till you hear them play together."

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

"I ain't never been nowhere and I ain't never seen nothing."

"My whole life has been happiness."

"When I'm improvising, I'm having a conversation with myself."

"Singing is something I wanted to do as much as playing trumpet."

"Color, it's a phenomenon of light. It's physics."

"I always say living good is the best revenge."

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination."

"Even if I didn't have a dime, I'd be rich just being able to play."

"Lord, it's a wonderful life and I like to enjoy it."

"I play every night like it's my last night on earth."

"You have to be entirely satisfied with what you're playing or you can't play it."

"It's easy to play anything, but hard to play music."

"Sometimes you'll hear a word and you need to understand it."

"I think there's a lot of people around who look like me."

"When you're in love you're capable of learning everything and of believing everything."

"I feel it in my bones, this is going to be a good day."

"The beauty of a flower is in its growth."

"I always tried to play the best music I possibly could."

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it."

"If it wasn't for jazz, there would be no rock and roll."

"There's no such thing as bad music, just music you don't understand yet."

"A lifetime of it and it's still fun doing it."

"We all gonna die, we all gonna leave here sometime, and if we are lucky we leave something behind."

"I never play the same show twice, every night is different."

"You don't have to teach people how to be human, they already know."

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into your life and then left, you have missed the most exquisite experiences God has placed at your disposal."