It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. 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 give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.

What we play is life.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.