Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it… for two days, the critics know it… three days, the public knows it.

Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both. But hot or cool man, Jazz is Jazz.

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.

There is two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind.

We all do ‘do, re, mi’ but you got to find the other notes yourself.

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

Money is the best deodorant.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Whoever thinks that money can’t buy happiness . . . just doesn’t know where to shop!

Use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.