New Orleans Quotes

• An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

  Mark Twain

  United States, Mardi Gras, 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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• 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.

  Danny Barker

  Passing Away, Half, Advise

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• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Catalyst, Wounds

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  Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

  Louis Armstrong

  Heart, Eye, Looks

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• New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Criminals, Sin

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• There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.

  Dr. John

  Dies

  Song: Down in New Orleans

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

  Andrei Codrescu

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Sometimes

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• America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

  Tennessee Williams

  New York, Cities, San Francisco

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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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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

  Bob Dylan

  Ideas, Good Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Trying, Earth, Compare

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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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• We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

  Grace King

  Past, Light, House

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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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• New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Real, Past

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Anthony Bourdain

  America, Might, Wonderful

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• 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.

  Chris Rose

  Laughing, Funeral, Radio

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• What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Home, Vegas, May

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• You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

  Francoise Sagan

  Song, Laughter, Wine

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• New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Sex, Cities, Sin

  "Sony" press release, January 2007.

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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Cities, America, Diversity

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

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• 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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