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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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When you're dead, you're done.
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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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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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Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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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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White folks still in the lead.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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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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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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