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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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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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You blows who you is.
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You got to love to be able to play
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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 got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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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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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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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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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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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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I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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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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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
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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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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