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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
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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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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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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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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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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
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