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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
Actor
Bandleader
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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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Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
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White folks still in the lead.
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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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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
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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 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's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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You got to love to be able to play
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When you're dead, you're done.
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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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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
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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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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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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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Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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What we play is life.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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