Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
New Orleans is my kind of city. I think there's a lot going on, but it's also very calm. It's a place… — Zion Williamson Copy Share Image
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
“So,” I demanded, trying to sound confident, “where can we find this trod to New Orleans?” “The frost giant ruins,” Ash replied,… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans, absurdity is like the humidity. It permeates everything, until you stop noticing it. It connects everything and everyone in… — Michael Reilly Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
“Not to Houston, anyway. It was hotter than hell in Houston, just like in New Orleans. If I move anywhere, it’ll be… — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
But I'm not an Atlanta Falcons fan. Nobody is. Sure, the team has its followers, its adherents, in Atlanta. But they don't… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
It's just the vibe I got when I landed in New Orleans. The culture is absolutely different. It's so dangerous, I tell… — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
New Orleans cats don't play a lot of solos unless they got something to say. It's not an ego thing like it… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
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