“Ain’t nobody played nothing like it since, and can’t nobody play nothing like it now. My oldest record, can’t nobody touch it. And if they say, ‘Which record do you like the best?’ I like them all, because I didn’t hit no bad notes on any of them.”
Louis Armstrong (quoted in Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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