All Music Is Folk Music. I Ain't

You Can't Take It For Granted. Even If We Have Two, Three Days Off I Still Have To Blow That Horn A Few Hours To Keep Up The Chops. I Mean I've Been Playing 50 Years, And That's What I've Been Doing In Order To Keep In That Groove There.

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.

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

Jazz Is Played From The Heart. You Can Even Live By It. Always Love It.

I Spent Nine Days In The Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The Judge Gave Me A Suspended Sentence And I Went To Work That Night - Wailed Just Like Nothing Happened. What Strucked Me Funny Though - I Laughed Real Loud When Several Movie Stars Came Up To The Bandstand While We Played A Dance Set And Told Me, When They Heard About Me Getting Caught With Marijuana, They Thought Marijuana Was A Chick. Woo Boy - That Really Fractured Me!