New Orleans, LA…Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” ​

“Man, all music is folk music. You ain’t never heard no horse sing a song, have you?”

“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

“If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out.”​

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

“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.”

​”You blows who you is.”

“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”​