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

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

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

“What we play is life.”

“'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.”

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

“Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them. ”

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

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.”

“What we play is life.”

“There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.”