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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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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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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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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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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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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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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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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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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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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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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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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What we play is life.
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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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White folks still in the lead.
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You blows who you is.
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