Louis Armstrong

Seems to me that the only thing that matters is that we like it, and we do. We like to blow, and we like to swing. And we like to make people happy.

I don't mind if you call me a square, 'cause I'm hip enough to know that it's all music, and the main thing is to make people happy.

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

I don't play anything that's not good. I don't care what you call it. I play good music.

There's some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard a horse sing a song, have you?

I ain't never gonna let no one tell me how to play my horn.

To be a musician, you have to be something of a poet, and you have to be something of a philosopher.

What we play is life.

I think that if you just get in there and play, it doesn't matter what kind of music it is, just play.

I don't know nothing about music. I just play by ear.

I'm not an old man. I'm a young man with a lot of experience.

There are some people who can't get into a groove if they tried. They just don't have it.

I just want to play my horn and make people happy.

You can't get to the top by just sitting on your bottom.

I don't play to the gallery. I play for myself, and if the gallery likes it, that's fine.

Music is life itself.

I don't worry about the future. I just live for today.

Every time I close my eyes, I see myself playing the horn.

I'm just a cat who blows a horn.