Satchmo and Plato ...

... Plato's Dialogues, part 5: Love and the perception of forms. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It's perhaps a bit like what Louis Armstrong felt about jazz: "If you gotta ask, you ain't never gonna know." Armstrong did not mean there is nothing to learn about jazz; quite the opposite. However, he implies that there is no learning without loving: without a love of it, jazz will neither have any initial allure for you, nor passion to hold you to it, nor sensibility to give you a deep feeling for it.