It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and…

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to…

— Chris Rose

Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and…

— Chris Rose

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

— Lauren Daigle

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast…

— Mary Landrieu

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

— Dustin Poirier

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

— Lauren Daigle

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

— Trombone Shorty

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

— Thomas Beecham

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at…

— Michael Parkinson

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around…

— Louis Armstrong

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British…

— George Bernard Shaw

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple…

— Frank Pittman

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing…

— Louis Armstrong

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham