New Orleans Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Believe, Writing, Spots

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• The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Light, Race

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• New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

  Brad Pitt

  Real, Cities, Spirit

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• There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Things In Life, People, Culture

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• In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

  Tom Piazza

  Cutting, Funeral, Sake

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• 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?

  Tennessee Williams

  Hands, Long, Pieces

  "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts".

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• It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Edinburgh, United States

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Mother, Nature, Cities

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

  Nora Ephron

  San Francisco, Self, Cities

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.301, Vintage

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• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  Harry Anderson

  Lunch, Hiking, Challenges

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• I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Air, House

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• 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

  Progress, Pace, Location

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  Sea, Rivers, Yellow

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• 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.

  Boris Vian

  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Born, Raised, Born And Raised

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• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Cities, Kansas City, Style

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• 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

  Cooking, Heritage, Louisiana

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• In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

  Mario Batali

  New York, Food, Two

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Cities, People, Community

  StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

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• New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

  Robert Asprin

  Morning, Night, Often Is

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• 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.

  John Goodman

  Smell, Guy, Climate

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• And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

  Billy Tauzin

  Thinking, Citizens, Shapes

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• The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Looks, Week, Said

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• I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Jazz

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• What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

  Ruben Blades

  Mean, Interesting, Cuba

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