If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

- Louis Armstrong

Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd …

- Louis Armstrong

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

- Louis Armstrong

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

- Louis Armstrong

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

- Louis Armstrong

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

- Louis Armstrong

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

- Louis Armstrong

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

- Louis Armstrong

What we play is life.

- Louis Armstrong