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It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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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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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 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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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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White folks still in the lead.
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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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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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