Louis Blues

Famous quotes containing the words louis and/or blues:

“Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet. Wait a minute I tell you. You ain’t heard nothing yet. Do you want to hear “Toot, Toot, Tootsie?””
—Alfread A. Cohen, U.S., and Louis Silver. Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)