[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived…

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my…

— Trombone Shorty

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could…

— Sarah Vowell

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong…

— Pete Townshend

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and…

— Thomas Gibson

I do a very good impression of Louis Armstrong.

— Joe Lycett

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the…

— Blake Lively

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert.…

— Ray Stevens

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in…

— Chuck Brown

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to…

— Jesse Andrews

Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history…

— Gary Giddins

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize…

— Freddie Hubbard

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley