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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

~Louis Armstrong

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

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'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

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I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'

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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

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What we play is life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 4th, 1901

Died: July 6th, 1971

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