#louis

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#could #figure #him #i #louis

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.' ↗

— Kanye West

#design #finished #giving #heart #i

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#live #louisiana #now #texas

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. ↗

— Beth Henley

#few #first #louisiana #lucky #place

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them. ↗

— Carol Alt

#anybody #could #curry #down #einstein

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before. ↗

— Louise Brown

#ask #before #brown #come #else

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band. ↗

— Tina Turner

#attracted #band #charged #him #his

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. ↗

— Philip Levine

#armstrong #day #hours #i #i love