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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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New Orleans
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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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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I've Got the World on a String.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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You blows who you is.
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say 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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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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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