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White folks still in the lead.

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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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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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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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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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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 don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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You blows who you is.
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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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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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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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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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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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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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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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