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If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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Jazz is what I play for a living.
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I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.
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It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
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If you still have to ask, shame on you
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When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship,
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If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
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I've Got the World on a String,
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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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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 spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!
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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 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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You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.
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You blows who you is.
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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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Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

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What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.
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What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.
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The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
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What a wonderful world.
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I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.
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The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night
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Never play anything the same way twice.
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[Bebop is] Chinese music.
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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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Never play a thing the same way twice.
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Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.
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If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
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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 don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
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Love is talkative passion.
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.
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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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Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour.
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When you're dead, you're done.
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You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
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There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
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There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
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My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
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You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
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If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong
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‎We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.
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