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When you're dead, you're done.
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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Film Actor
Film Score Composer
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
Pops
Louis Daniel Armstrong
Dipper
Jazz
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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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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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You blows who you is.
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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'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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You got to love to be able to play
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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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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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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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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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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