Armstrong Quote by Leonard Bernstein

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long…

— Al Hirt

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

— Eddie Condon

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

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

— Al Stewart

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

— Wynton Marsalis

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along…

— Ella Fitzgerald

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

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and…

— Dick Dale

“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and…

— Wynton Marsalis