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You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As
Louis
Armstrong
said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'
Ned Block
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From New Orleans and the back roads of the Mississippi Delta to Harlem and Chicago, black musicians set enduring and distinctive standards for American creativity. The blues of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the jazz of Duke Ellington, and the soul of Marvin Gaye claim fans of all ages from around the world. The trumpeting genius of
Louis
Armstrong
and Dizzy Gillespie illustrate the exceptional musicianship so prominent in various genres of African-American music.
George W. Bush
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I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos — and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding
Louis
Armstrong
or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.
Frantz Fanon
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Once there was
Louis
Armstrong
blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.
Jack Kerouac
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Louis Armstrong
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Born:
August 4, 1901
Died:
July 6, 1971
(aged 69)
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