New orleans Quotes · Page 8

“Isaac and I spent almost a month in New Orleans, hardly ever leaving the house.”

— Gideon Rathbone

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an…

— Chris Rose

If you can't make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, please feel free to reveal your breasts right here

— Mardi Gras

I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering…

— Cobie Smulders

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

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

— Normani Kordei

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

— Chris Rose

The one thing I've learned about New Orleans as a city is that they're a very welcoming and very passionate fanbase.

— Josh Hart

I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his…

— Robin Leach

At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your…

— Tom Piazza

There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just…

— Big Freedia

“can’t say I mourned my failure overmuch, as it meant I’d get a free trip to New Orleans out of it, and…

— Neal Stephenson

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the…

— Clint Walker

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was…

— Frank Ocean

There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people…

— Billy Corgan

“[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET,…

— Elizabeth Varon

“Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and…

— Anne Rice

“He remembered reading that Antarctica had ninety percent of the world’s ice and seventy percent of its freshwater. If you took all…

— A.G. Riddle

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking…

— Aaron Broussard

“So...how the hell does a dominatrix from New Orleans hook up with a French farmer?” “Do you want the long version or…

— Tiffany Reisz

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better.…

— Scott Skiles

I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place,…

— James Arthur

“Orin's special conscious horror, besides heights and the early morning, is roaches. There'd been parts of metro Boston near the Bay he'd…

— David Foster Wallace

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.…

— Bryant Terry

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Mitch Landrieu

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

— Tennessee Williams

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to…

— Daya

“Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.”

— Eden Butler

I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and…

— Aaron Neville

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

— Big Freedia

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

— Drew Brees

“The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

— Harold Perrineau

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Tom Junod

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

— Trombone Shorty

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

— Aaron Broussard

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

— Perry Chen

Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down…

— Fats Domino