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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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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When you're dead, you're done.
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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 makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.
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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
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The best I can do is stay happy.
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You blows who you is.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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