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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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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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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The best I can do is stay happy.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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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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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've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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What we play is life.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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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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Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
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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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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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I've Got the World on a String.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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