louis armstrong

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

“ Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him. ”

“ I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. ”

“ Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the 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. ”

“ All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ”

“ All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to. ”

“ I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you. ”

“ At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the ”

“ My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn... ”

“ The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. ”