"I knew Louis well, he had his crazy little habits. Everyone thinks he was a druggie, but he wasn't. After every conce…"

"The then president of ... ... ...showed up at the recording session ...screamed at me that I had to be crazy to recor…"

"I like Louis! Anything he does is all right. I don't know about his statements, though. I can do without them."

"Louis Armstrong is a jazz ancestor, a kind of great-grandfather, or even an Adam of jazz, with Billie Holiday nearby …"

"My most revered idols as a kid growing up were Louis Armstrong and... Duke Ellington. When I got into the record busi…"

"[I]n the mid-60s during the deepening national traumas of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, racial strife, and turm…"

"Louis ... was marvelous to be with. He had tremendous warmth, appeal. And I idolized him, not only for how great he w…"

"He was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone."

"You know you can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played — I mean even modern. … I love his approach to th…"

"In jazz, all roads lead back to Louis Armstrong. He is the supreme example of the vitality of the past animating and …"