Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

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 since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.