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You got to love to be able to play
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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New Orleans
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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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'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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You blows who you is.
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Louis Armstrong
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
Louis Armstrong
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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The best I can do is stay happy.
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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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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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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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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.
Louis Armstrong
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.
Louis Armstrong
Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
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.
Louis Armstrong
