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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
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New Orleans
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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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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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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 ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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 got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
Louis Armstrong
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 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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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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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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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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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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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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The best I can do is stay happy.
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White folks still in the lead.
Louis Armstrong
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.
Louis Armstrong
