New Orleans Quotes
New Orleans Quote of the day
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose
Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.
And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.
