You blows who you is.

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.

Winning fires me up.

Realize you can chase your dreams with just believing. Dont be afraid to believe in some magic if proof not in front in of you follow your gut.

I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

That is the exploration that awaits you Not mapping stars and studying nebula but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I race kind of sparingly.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

But how will I know who my soul mate is? ... By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.

Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible... But you have to blog what's interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.

It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.