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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
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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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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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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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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Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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White folks still in the lead.
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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