Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and…

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

— Tony Bennett

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

— Nicholas Stoller

In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough…

— Woody Allen

The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America…

— William Monahan

The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of…

— Wynton Marsalis

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

— Billie Holiday

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century…

— Anonymous

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no…

— Jasper Fforde

I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world.…

— Woody Allen

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

— Wynton Marsalis

[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