Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.” — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I'm supporting the New Orleans economy by maxing out my credit cards in a prolonged blackout. — Mardi Gras Copy Share Image
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans.… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Being gay and coming up in New Orleans was not easy. At first I was very terrified and very timid. — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in… — Ian McNulty Copy Share Image
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back.… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I just co-created a story for a Disney movie that I'm working on with my fiancée. And also about to finish up… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I want to continue to stay plugged into New Orleans and help people who are still struggling with the recovery here, and… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Life in New Orleans is all about making the present--this moment, right now--as pleasant as possible. So New Orleanians, by and large,… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
“Why you frettin', Jo? You not sure?" I inhaled my tears in order to speak. "I'm sure I want to go, but… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
There's a plethora of genres that I've been introduced to, but that's only because of the foundation that was laid growing up… — Luke James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco. — Luke James Copy Share Image
