New Orleans Quotes - Page 5

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

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Dad, Play, Black

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• There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

  Michael Richards

  Country, Vegas, Black

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

  Delta Burke

  Years, Towns

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• I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

  Michael Chertoff

  Pain, Mistake, Thinking

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• You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

  James Carville

  Shoes, Needs, Pairs

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

  Ray Davies

  Heritage, World, Disappear

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• I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Born

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• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Cities, French Quarter

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• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Billy Tauzin

  Cities, Water, Design

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• So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

  Sean Hannity

  White, People, Used

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• The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.

  Daniel Gillies

  Dark, Cities, America

  "Daniel Gillies Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The Spin-Off THE ORIGINALS, His Directorial Debut BROKEN KINGDOM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit.

  Julie Smith

  Heart, August, Blood

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• White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Gun, Cities

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam

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• If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

  Ty Pennington

  Sound, Language, Ifs

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, Air

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• New Orleans is a glorious mutation

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mutation, Glorious

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• The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

  Chris Rose

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• My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.

  Laverne Cox

  Mother, Teacher, Son

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• New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

  Wendell Pierce

  Culture, Birth, Milestone

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Sticks, Scripture, Jazz

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• New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

  Tom Piazza

  Cities, Elegance, Refinement

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

  Teena Marie

  Home, Affinity, Treats

  "Teena Marie: The women behind the groove". Interview with Lee Tyler, www.bluesandsoul.com.

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• It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

  Henry Bonilla

  Cities, Way, Wonderful

  Henry Bonilla during Michael Brown's Testimony Before Congress, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2005.

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• 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.

  Blake Lively

  Trying, Scratches, Treasure

  "Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard Interview GREEN LANTERN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 13, 2011.

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