Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

Love is talkative passion.

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

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

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