The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

You blows who you is.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

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

We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know.” Louis Armstrong

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

What a wonderful world.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

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

What we play is life.

All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.