The Best I Can Do Is Stay

As Many Bands As You Heard [in New Orleans], That's How Many Bands You Heard Playing Right. I Thought I Was In Heaven Playing Second Trumpet In The Tuxedo Brass Band -- And They Had Some Funeral Marches That Would Just Touch Your Heart, They Were So Beautiful.

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

If You Still Have To Ask, Shame On You

A Lot Of The Musicians Asked Me If When I Hit My High-cs On The Records I Had A Clarinet Take The Notes. Some [thought] I Had Invented Some Kind Of Gadget So I Could Play High Register. They Weren't Satisfied Until They Handed Me A Trumpet That They Had With Them And Had Me Swing It. Then They Cheered.