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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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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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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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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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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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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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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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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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