Armstrong Quote by Duke Ellington

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

Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who…

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

— Philip Levine

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

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

— Wynton Marsalis

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't…

— Dave Brubeck

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto