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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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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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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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White folks still in the lead.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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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 will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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