Agendas Quote by Wynton Marsalis

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

“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

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom…

— Al Jarreau

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what…

— Ken Burns

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

— Anonymous

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

The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people from both…

— Atif Aslam

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute…

— Louis Armstrong

“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .”

— Martin T. Williams

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to…

— Herbert