Allen Toussaint Quotes

• 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.

  Allen Toussaint

  Garden, New Orleans, Breathing

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• And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

  Allen Toussaint

  Mother, Remember You, Remembers You

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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

  New Orleans, Progress, Pace

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• When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

  Allen Toussaint

  Children, Play, Kind

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". Interview, www.npr.org. 1988.

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• To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

  Allen Toussaint

  America, Different, Wagons

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

  Allen Toussaint

  Children, Mean, Piano Music

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  Piano, Forte, Performers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

  Allen Toussaint

  Song, Artist, Particular

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

  Allen Toussaint

  Mother, Law, Comedian

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

  Allen Toussaint

  Play, Band, Chords

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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