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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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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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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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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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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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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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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What we play is life.
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You got to love to be able to play
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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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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's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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I've Got the World on a String.
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There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
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You blows who you is.
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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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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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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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