Louisiana Quotes - Page 2

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think, another 25 million acres that went on sale in the Gulf for further extraction.

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Hillary Clinton didn't go to Louisiana. She didn't go to Mexico. She was invited.

In Louisiana, President Bush met with over 15,000 National Guard troops. Here's the weird part, nobody remembers seeing him there.

I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.