Louis Armstrong

I never had a problem with white people. Some of my best friends are white.

I'm not a civil rights leader. I'm just Louis Armstrong.

If you ain't got that swing, it don't mean a thing.

I don't need no fancy words. Just give me a good tune and I'll play it.

Music is a universal language.

I just try to make people happy with my music.

Satchmo, that's what they call me. Short for Satchelmouth. Because of my big mouth.

I'm just a country boy from New Orleans.

The only thing I ever loved more than music was my wife, Lucille.

There are some things that if you have to ask, you'll never know.

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

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look at the audience and I see the world. I see the people. I see the human beings.

Seems to me that the people who all the time talking about what's wrong with the world, are the same ones who ain't doing nothing to make it right.

I'm a musician. I don't know nothing about politics.

I don't mind if I have a little something for my health, you know, a little pot.

All I do is blow my horn, and the people pay me for it.

I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has been my music, my life has been my people. And my people is music.

Man, all that scratchin' and screamin' ain't music. That's just noise.

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole everything is to my music.

I don't care about no money. I just want to play my horn.