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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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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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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I've Got the World on a String.
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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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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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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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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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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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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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