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Louis Armstrong

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

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"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."

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"I was exposed to jazz early on."

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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."

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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."

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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."

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