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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

— Louis Armstrong

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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.

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

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.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

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