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You See, Pops, That's The Kind Of Talk That's Ruining The Music. Everyone's Trying To Do Something New, No One Trying To Learn The Fundamentals First. All Them Young Cats Playing Their Wierd Chords. And What Happens? No One's Working.

Making Money Ain't Nothing Exciting To Me. You Might Be Able To Buy A Little Better Booze Than The Wino On The Corner. But You Get Sick Just Like The Next Cat And When You Die You're Just As Graveyard Dead As He Is.

Music Is Either Good Or Bad, And It's Got To Be Learned. You Got To Have Balance.

It's America's Classical Music ... This Becomes Our Tradition ... The Bottom Line Of Any Country In The World Is What Did We Contribute To The World? ... We Contributed Louis Armstrong

I Had A Chance To Play With The Best Musicians That Were Coming Through Because I Was Pretty Good Myself Or Else They Wouldn't Have Tolerated With Me.