Top New Orleans Quotes Collection
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Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!Collection: New Orleans
What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.Collection: New Orleans
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 RoseCollection: New Orleans
The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.Collection: New Orleans
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New OrleansCollection: New Orleans
Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.Collection: New Orleans
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.Collection: New Orleans
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.Collection: New Orleans
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.Collection: New Orleans
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.Collection: New Orleans
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.Collection: New Orleans
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.Collection: New Orleans
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.Collection: New Orleans
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.Collection: New Orleans
Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.Collection: New Orleans
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...Collection: New Orleans
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.Collection: New Orleans
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?Collection: New Orleans
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.Collection: New Orleans
In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan - because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.Collection: New Orleans
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.Collection: New Orleans
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.Collection: New Orleans
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.Collection: New Orleans
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.Collection: New Orleans
I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.Collection: New Orleans
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.Collection: New Orleans
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.Collection: New Orleans
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.Collection: New Orleans
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.Collection: New Orleans
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.Collection: New Orleans
I really missed being in New Orleans, but I'm one of the lucky ones.Collection: New Orleans
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New OrleansCollection: New Orleans
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.Collection: New Orleans
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."Collection: New Orleans
The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have become interchangeable. Here in New Orleans, everything from the architecture to the way in which people eat, the way in which they talk, the way in which they do business, the way in which they dance, the manner in which everything is set to a parade beat, they're all from here. There's no place like it.Collection: New Orleans