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A guy who blows a trumpet like you do's got to have steel lips and iron lungs. He's got to be a man. No kids. He's got to be a man.

10 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Trumpet Talks (The early life of Louis Armstrong) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:05:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And inside, the drummer gripped the trumpeter's arm and held him back.

- Just make like we haven't started practicing yet.

- OK. I ain't gonna blow.

- Poor kid, too bad!

- Too bad 'nothin.' Let him grow into long pants first before he grabs at a trumpet.

- A guy who blows a trumpet like you do's got to have steel lips and iron lungs. He's got to be a man. No kids. He's got to be a man.

- Yes, in New Orleans in the hot years when ragtime was being beat and molded into a new music...

- Those who picked up the trumpet had to give body and soul to blowin' out the new music that stung the heart of those who heard it like a shot of adrenaline.

- The kid who sold coal came to a dead-end street, hitched his wagon to a lamppost, and walked up two rickety flights of tenement stairs.

- Yes? Who?

- Me, dad. Just me.

- It's about time.

- How much coal did you sell?

- Well... I only got to go around the district twice.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

The kid left her and went back to me, the trumpet, and blew until his cheeks ached and his lips cracked and split, but he kept on.
You're the one who can make the trumpet talk... and tell the truth.
I believe that once one accepts discrimination against another, he's preparing the way for his own slavery. I intend to remain free.
Listen. They say when a new music's bein' born, you get one kid like this who comes along years ahead of himself. This kid plays tomorrow's music today.
Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget it.
Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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