I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
Basically, from the pilot of the first season of 'Togetherness,' I was strategically losing weight all the way through and then all… — Steve Zissis 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
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
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
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
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“We came to discover a world rich with culture, history, and bayous. This flat swampy territory is riddled with waterways, snaking like… — Mike Correll Copy Share Image
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Molly's is that it is not, whether in the daytime or at night, the exclusive preserve of an age… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New… — Danny Glover 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead -… — Danny Barker Copy Share Image
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock… — The Edge Copy Share Image
![“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako…” quote by Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/danny-glover-7902_cinema_there-are-things-that-make-me-excited-ab_273405.jpg)
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