Louis Prima Quotes

#1. If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

Bart Millard

#2. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

Anne Gracie

#3. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

Louis Prima

#5. If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Seth Godin

#6. I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Louis Jourdan

#7. Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

Lauren Slater

#8. I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

Louis Prima

#9. As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Brian Tracy

#10. Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Mandy Patinkin

#11. We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

George W. Bush

#12. Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

William Empson

#13. There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

Louis Prima