Quotes about new-orleans
new-orleans air people
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera. Brad Pitt
new-orleans towns
New Orleans in an amazing town. Benjamin Walker
new-orleans people black
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. Charles Rangel
new-orleans giving tragedy
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
new-orleans years towns
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. Delta Burke
new-orleans trying treasure
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place. Blake Lively
new-orleans
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. Bob Dylan
new-orleans talking new-day
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. Branford Marsalis
new-orleans trials murder
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. Aaron Broussard
new-orleans cities roots
It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue. Bill Taylor
new-orleans progress pace
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint
new-orleans trying too-late
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now. Duke Ellington
new-orleans dies
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans... Dr. John
new-orleans rivers illinois
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. Clint Walker
new-orleans sometimes feels
I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again. Daniel Tosh
new-orleans musical together
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that. David Byrne
new-orleans earth annoying
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth. David Letterman
new-orleans mutation glorious
New Orleans is a glorious mutation Anthony Bourdain
new-orleans trying earth
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.
new-orleans effort relief
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough. Angelina Jolie
new-orleans people united-states
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans." David Simon
new-orleans people baghdad
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. Christopher Hitchens
new-orleans rocks people
The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. Mitch Landrieu
new-orleans cities white
One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
new-orleans cooking heritage
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. Paul Prudhomme
new-orleans cities people
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
new-orleans cajuns cuisine
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. Poppy Z. Brite
new-orleans government cities
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. Newt Gingrich
new-orleans born
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. Kitty Carlisle
new-orleans historical fiction
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. Isabel Allende
new-orleans san-francisco numbers
Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!' Eric Burdon
new-orleans cities people
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. Harry Connick, Jr.
new-orleans government people
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.