Louis Armstrong

You blows who you is.

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

Never play anything the same way twice.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

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

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

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

I’ve earned all this money. I’ve worked for it. I didn’t cheat anybody. I didn’t issue junk bonds and put people out of work. I earned it. And I live relatively modestly given my level of success and wealth.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I rob banks because that’s where the money is.

Too much money ain’t enough money.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.