Top 1200 New Orleans Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during his recording career with Fats Domino in the Fifties and Sixties until the day he died was as much a part of the music of New Orleans as anybody else has had to offer.

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

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.

Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.

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.

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.

I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

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.

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.

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.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.

For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.

My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.

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.

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.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it rebuilt and cleaned up the city. It all happened for a reason. I'm now grateful for Katrina.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I want to buy my mother a huge house in New Orleans so she can open up a bed and breakfast.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in 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.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

I've been through so much, especially coming from New Orleans where there was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had to pick up. We had to move, make new friends, and I think my family was just strong for me as well because we had to start completely over again.

New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

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.