New Orleans (1947)
Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong
Quotes
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Henry Ferber : That note isn't even in the diatonic scale.
Louis Armstrong : Diatonic? Did I do something wrong?
Henry Ferber : Something extraordinary. You are playing notes between flat and natural. It's like discovering - a secret scale just made for this type of music.
Louis Armstrong : Horn, did you hear what the gentleman said?
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Louis Armstrong : Friends, Mr. Duquesne wanted us to fill up real good before we started away. You know, most of us here were born in ol' Storyville. The time makes some changes. And the law clamps down. Out go the good jobs - and the good times - and the music in the nighttime. Now, how 'bout one more tune before we leave.
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[first lines]
Drummer : Hot ziggity! What was that Satchmo?
Louis Armstrong : Name your poison.
Guitarist : Man, that's blues, fo' shore.
Trombonist : That's right! "Name Your Poison Blues".
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Louis Armstrong : We're going to hear some long hair music.
[Henry Ferber sits down at the piano and plays Fantasie-Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op.66]
Louis Armstrong : Hey, the guy who wrote that song, he stole it from Sugar Brown. Why, that's 'Corn Crib Blues'.
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Louis Armstrong : What kind of music's in there?
Henry Ferber : Uptown music.
Louis Armstrong : Uptown music?
Henry Ferber : Want to see it?
Louis Armstrong : Yeah.
[looks and points at the sheet music]
Louis Armstrong : Don't these little fags on the fences get in the way of your feelings sometimes?
[Ferber laughs]
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Louis Armstrong : [singing] You're nasty, you're dirty, a take it away, I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say, I mean, I heard Buddy Bolden say
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Louis Armstrong : We shore on our way, boss.
Nick Duquesne : Give 'em what they want, Satchmo. From you men from New Orleans, they turned you into missionaries. Go to it, Satchmo. Convert the Philistines!
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Nick Duquesne : It seems I left everything in New Orleans, including my credit.
Louis Armstrong : You're credit is good with me. That is if I ever get something for you to use it on.
Nick Duquesne : Well, its a far cry from the Orpheum Cabaret.
Louis Armstrong : Don't you worry, boss. It won't be long before you the King of Chicago.
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Louis Armstrong : Don't you call the King no fly guy!
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Nick Duquesne : How did you know where to find us?
Drummer : We heard Satchmo's horn wafting through the town. So, we jes followed dem notes.
Louis Armstrong : I was callin' the childr'n back home.
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Miralee Smith : Oh, Satchmo!
Louis Armstrong : I feel so good! I gotta blow!
Miralee Smith , Satchmo's horn : Ah-Ah-Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
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Louis Armstrong : Ain't you gonna inquire about Mr. Nick?
Miralee Smith : How is he?
Louis Armstrong : You askin' with your lips, not your heart.
Miralee Smith : My heart isn't interested.
Louis Armstrong : Miss Miralee, I seen Mr. Nick jes before I left the States. He's singin' the blues, even when he hates singin'. I mean the blues about you.
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Louis Armstrong : Man, what kinda piano playin' is that?
Pianist : That's Chicago-stylin'.
Louis Armstrong : Well, whatever that means, I bet it's somethin' about the blues.
Pianist : That's the 'Honky Tonk Train Blues'.
Louis Armstrong : We should get friendly. My name's Satchmo. I'm sure you know your's.
Pianist : Mine's Meade 'Lux' Lewis.
Louis Armstrong : Well, that's 38 and 2.
Pianist : That's 40.
Pianist : All over the world!