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Just make like we haven't started practicing yet.

4 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 00:05:07 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- The kid came hawking his coal and peeping at the back windows of Diamond Stone's to see if he could get a glimpse of my shinin' cylinders in the hands of the trumpeter.

- He stopped his wagon at the door.

- Coal, man!

- He was perched on top the coal and straining his ears for the sound of someone blowing on a trumpet.

- 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...

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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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