Louis Armstrong discusses music
Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
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The Early Days of Cat Singing
"I dropped the music and I looked in the control booth and he kept saying, go ahead. I didn't see the words, I made them all the way." "If you can't sing it, you can't play it," is a phrase used to describe musicians who don't play instruments but singers. The instrument was like his voice: You make the same notes, like his horn. That's why we could scat and do things like that"
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