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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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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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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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's 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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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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You blows who you is.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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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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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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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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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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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never play anything the same way twice.
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