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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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You blows who you is.
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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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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 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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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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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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world
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You got to love to be able to play
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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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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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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Never play anything the same way twice.
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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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White folks still in the lead.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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