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Although Armstrong claimed to be born in 1900, various documents, notably a baptismal record, indicate that 1901 was his birth year. He grew up in dire poverty in New Orleans, Louisiana, when jazz was very young. As a child he worked at odd jobs and sang in a boys’ quartet. In 1913 he was sent to the Colored Waifs Home as a juvenile delinquent. There he learned to play cornet in the home’s band, and playing music quickly became a passion; in his teens he learned music by listening to the pioneer jazz artists of the day, including the leading New Orleans cornetist, King Oliver. Armstrong developed rapidly: he played in marching and jazz bands, becoming skillful enough to replace Oliver in the important Kid Ory band about 1918, and in the early 1920s he played in Mississippi riverboat dance bands.
Armstrong's charismatic stage presence impressed not only the jazz world but all of popular music. He recorded several songs throughout his career, including he is known for songs like "Star Dust," "La Vie En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World."
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician"
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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a neighborhood so poor that it was nicknamed "The Battlefield."
Armstrong had a difficult childhood: His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis's birth. His mother, who often turned to prostitution, frequently left him with his maternal grandmother. Armstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working.
A local Jewish family, the Karnofskys, gave young Armstrong a job collecting junk and delivering coal. They also encouraged him to sing and often invited him into their home for meals.
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On New Year's Eve in 1912, Armstrong fired his stepfather's gun in the air during a New Year's Eve celebration and was arrested on the spot. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys.
There, he received musical instruction on the cornet and fell in love with music. In 1914, the home released him, and he immediately began dreaming of a life making music.
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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."–Louis Armstrong
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
–Louis Armstrong
"The music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people."–Louis Armstrong
"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original."–Louis Armstrong
"What we play is life."–Louis Armstrong
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."–Louis Armstrong
"Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is."–Louis Armstrong
"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right – shame on you!"–Louis Armstrong
"There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing."–Louis Armstrong
"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn."–Louis Armstrong
"If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out."–Louis Armstrong
"Never play a thing the same way twice. "–Louis Armstrong
"Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard no horse sing a song, have you?"
–Louis Armstrong
"If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll."–Louis Armstrong
"I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so."–Louis Armstrong
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."–Louis Armstrong
"I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need."–Louis Armstrong
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."–Louis Armstrong
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."–Louis Armstrong
"I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'"–Louis Armstrong
"The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over."
–Louis Armstrong
"Well, I tell you… the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines."–Louis Armstrong
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."–Louis Armstrong
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