The kid had me at his lips, and with his lungs grown strong by hawking coal and his dreams clear, bold and rich...

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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 00:25:24 in the radio play.

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- When night came, it found the kid back at Diamond Stone's...

- And they let him get on the bandstand, and Bunk put a battered old horn in his pocket.

- We'll tell you when to try to blow in.

- The number's 'Tiger Rag.' You heard of it?

- Sure, I know it by heart.

- OK, here we go.

(Band playing Tiger Rad)

- The kid had me at his lips, and with his lungs grown strong by hawking coal and his dreams clear, bold and rich...

- He pushed me through notes and chords I'd never hit before and captured the new music inside his horn.

- And when he had shot the last note high above high C, the band stopped and the patrons stood up and were staring at the raggedy kid from the reform school.

- Johnson nudged him.

- I don't know where you got all that power, but if you'll stick around, I'll teach you what I know.

- Come on along... there's a guy around here you gotta know...

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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

Quotes 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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