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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
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New Orleans
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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What we play is life.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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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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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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White folks still in the lead.
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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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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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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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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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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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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