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

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

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

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

What we play is life.

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

You blows who you is.

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

'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.

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I'd sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

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

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.

Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.'

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an 'order from Al Capone,' Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: 'I think that Louis Armstrong is the world's greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.'

Man, if you got to ask you'll never know.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

Never play anything the same way twice.

Confront them with annihilation and they will then survive plunge them into a deadly situation and they will then live. When people fall into danger they are then able to strive for victory.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Come and share a pot of tea, My home is warm and my friendship’s free.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

Be discreet in all things and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Social media is so influential now.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’

I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.