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Louis Armstrong Inspirational Quotes (45)

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When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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I've Got the World on a String.
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As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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There's only two ways to sum up music either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
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What we play is life.
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It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the mis-de and you just got meaner and meaner.
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You blows who you is.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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.
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