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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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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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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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 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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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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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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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What we play is life.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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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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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You blows who you is.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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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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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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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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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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