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- You could have gone around four, five times if you hadn't stopped in that cafe...
- I didn't stop...

7 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 00:06:14 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Yes, in New Orleans in the hot years when ragtime was being beat and molded into a new music...

- Those who picked up the trumpet had to give body and soul to blowin' out the new music that stung the heart of those who heard it like a shot of adrenaline.

- The kid who sold coal came to a dead-end street, hitched his wagon to a lamppost, and walked up two rickety flights of tenement stairs.

- Yes? Who?

- Me, dad. Just me.

- It's about time.

- How much coal did you sell?

- Well... I only got to go around the district twice.

- You could have gone around four, five times if you hadn't stopped in that cafe...

- I didn't stop...

- Don't you think I know you and the gang of brats you run round with sneak in every cafe on Rampart Street,

- Ape the drummers and the trumpet players... wastin' time when you should be workin', helpin' pay rent.

- I didn't stop... I worked all day!

- You laid out in Diamond Stone's Cafe too! Didn't you?

- I didn't stop today! Don't be hitting on me...

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

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.
All right now, girl, stand aside. Least a woman can do is to keep out of the way of those who're busy. Let the moving men by.
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

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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