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Sorry... you earned it. Maybe the next time you get a trumpet... it'll be your own. You'll get one, Louis.

11 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 00:22:36 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You've learned more music here than most students get in college, Louis.

- What do you intend doin' now that you're leaving school?

- I'm gonna look for work, sir.

- Good. Well... Stop by and visit us sometimes.

- Sure, sure, maybe I'll have to.

- No. I don't think so, Louis.

- Oh, by the way... You'll have to leave that trumpet here. It belongs to the school.

- Sorry... you earned it. Maybe the next time you get a trumpet... it'll be your own. You'll get one, Louis.

- The kid left me lying on the director's desk and went back to the work he knew people paid for.

- Coal, man. Coal, man? My face is brown, my horse is black, I sell my coal two bits a sack. Coal man, coal!

- He went back on the streets, but there was a new tune in his voice..

- And over in Diamond Stone's Cafe, Bunk Johnson and his drummer were rehearsing... and again the drummer heard him coming.

- Hey... be quiet a minute.

[...]

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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