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Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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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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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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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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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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White folks still in the lead.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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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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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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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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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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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 don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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You got to love to be able to play
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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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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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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