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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

Louis Armstrong

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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
Songwriter
New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
Pops
Louis Daniel Armstrong
Dipper
Blow
Jazz
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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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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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The best I can do is stay happy.
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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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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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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 blows who you is.
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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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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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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.
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What we play is life.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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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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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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