Louis Armstrong

"The higher you go, the more there is to see."

"You open your mouth and out comes the music."

"My whole life I've been trying to be a good person and a good musician."

"When something's not right, you know it."

"Good music never goes out of style."

"The thing about jazz is, you don't know what's going to happen next."

"I've always done my thing the same way, with all my heart."

"There's no yesterday or tomorrow when you're playing music."

"If you understand it, then you're living it."

"I never cared much for money, just wanted to play my music."

"The human race needs music to get through life."

"Every night I come out and try to do my best for the people."

"You just gotta keep moving forward."

"I think we have only one life and we should live it the way we want to live it. But we should do it in a way that respects the rights and feelings of other people."

"Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what trials and tribulations befall us, there is always music."

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

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

"The most important thing is to have a great time in life and share it with people you love."

"What we play is life. But we trying to play life in a more beautiful way than life plays it on us."

"I always made sure I was working around people who could help me to improve, people who were smarter than me."

"Good evening everybody and welcome to the show. Music is my life, it's my passion and my joy."

"There are very few geniuses and there are many geniuses. I might be one of them, but I don't know about it."

"A good deed has power. People need to remember that good deeds have a way of coming back to you."

"The beat goes on and I want to keep swinging as long as I'm able."

"I never tried to make a fool of anybody and I never tried to make anybody look bad, but I have had the honor of entertaining people from all walks of life."

"I've played everything from bebop to swing to the blues and I try to put my heart into all of it."

"When you're doing what you love, you never work a day in your life."

"The secret to enjoying life is to do what you love and love what you do."

"I used to play second trumpet with my eyes closed, just listening and following along."

"Cats who dig freedom, they come from all over this world and they all speak the same language, man, the language of jazz."