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  • Nor does he understand jazz; the only jazz name he can come up with is Louis Armstrong, proving to Sonny that he's hopelessly square.†  (source)
  • They'd already closed down most operations at Louis Armstrong International Airport.†  (source)
  • I keep hearing Louis Armstrong saying, "Man, if ya gotta ask, you'll never know.†  (source)
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  • Perhaps I like Louis Armstrong because he's made poetry out of being invisible.†  (source)
  • One wave of popularity for black idiom among whites came in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was cool for New Yorkers to go to Harlem to hear jazz greats like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong but also the hepcat Cab Calloway, who created a 'Jive Talk Dictionary" in song, popularizing expressions such as hip (wise, sophisticated), in the groove (perfect), square (unhip), and chick (girl), or a hip chick (a beautiful girl).†  (source)
  • My father never mentioned Louis Armstrong, except to forbid us to play his records; but there was a picture of him on our wall for a long time.†  (source)
  • I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"—all at the same time.†  (source)
  • He had been born in New Orleans and had been a quite young man there during the time that Louis Armstrong, a boy, was running errands for the dives and honky-tonks of what was always presented to me as one of the most wicked of cities—to this day, whenever I think of New Orleans, I also helplessly think of Sodom and Gomorrah.†  (source)
  • Then somehow I came out of it, ascending hastily from this underworld of sound to hear Louis Armstrong innocently asking, What did I do To be so black And blue?†  (source)
  • And there's still a conflict within me: With Louis Armstrong one half of me says, "Open the window and let the foul air out," while the other says, "It was good green corn before the harvest."†  (source)
  • Like: Louis Armstrong.†  (source)
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