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You blows who you is.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
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New Orleans
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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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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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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What we play is life.
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As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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