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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
Bandleader
Conductor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Radio Personality
Recording Artist
Singer
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
Pops
Louis Daniel Armstrong
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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
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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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White folks still in the lead.
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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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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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A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.
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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 will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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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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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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