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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
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New Orleans
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Louis Daniel Armstrong
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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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.
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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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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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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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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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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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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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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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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You blows who you is.
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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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White folks still in the lead.
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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