- Why there... why always there?
- 'Cause I can sit in the back there and hear them guys play music that is music.
8 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 00:08:19 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Most boys your age are still children. But you've been working since you were seven...
- You've earned a man's pay and shouldered a man's load...
- You're not a child, but you're still my boy. Can't you tell me where you goin'?
- Why there... why always there?
- 'Cause I can sit in the back there and hear them guys play music that is music.
- When I hear it, it's just like they're talkin' to me, ma.
- When ol' Buddy Bolden 'n' Bunk Johnson and King Oliver cut loose on the trumpet.
- When the piano rolls and the drum beats that way...
- Nothin' but rowdies and drunkards in them cafes...!
- Folks uptown says it's nothin' but 'gutter' music!
[...]
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