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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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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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Red beans and ricely yours.
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At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the mis-de and you just got meaner and meaner.
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I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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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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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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White folks still in the lead.
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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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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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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
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I've Got the World on a String.
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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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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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To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
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We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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