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

"If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong"

"Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know."

"If it sounds good, it is good."

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

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

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

"If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll."

"Never play a thing the same way twice."

"Never play anything the same way twice."