That trumpet? That's me he's blowing. I'm Trumpet. Look at me: curved brass cylinder with a cup-shaped mouth. Three valves and a thousand tones.
15 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 00:00:23 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Good gosh Almighty, to think that's what I missed!
- I got a good notion to divorce Timothy Rodgers and just be married to Brooklynn Dodgers.
(Louis Armstrong trumpet solo)
- But the angel Gabriel touched his lips to my mouth and called home the quick and the dead.
- The Romans blew me when the earth was their empire.
- I've blown taps for the Caesars and the Napoleons.
- My voice has been heard in high and low places.
- But... until the kid blew me, I never knew what scales I could climb.
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