Quotes by Louis Hughes

“Kahn once said, “The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.””

“Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.””

“I swear by the mass I believe Hugh Ferryman took you for a maid.””

“It was a heady goal, and these were heady times. Langston Hughes said that Negroes were creating art and literature as if their lives depended on it.””

“The cream of the Negro musicians then in France, like Cricket Smith on the trumpet, Louis Jones on the violin, Palmer Jones at the piano, Frank Withers on the clarinet, and Buddy Gilmore at the drums, would weave out music that would almost make your heart stand still at dawn in a Paris night club in the rue Pigalle, when most of the guests were gone and you were washing the last pots and pans in a two-by-four kitchen, with the fire in the range dying and the one high window letting the soft dawn in.””