"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 just want to be a good example for the young people."

"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole everything, I give to music. And I don't care what nobody says."

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