Culture Quote by Big Freedia

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

— Big Freedia

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

— Big Freedia

I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

— Big Freedia

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all…

— Mitch Landrieu

I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

— Trombone Shorty

“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present,…

— Tom Robbins

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

— Dawn Richard

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

— Trombone Shorty

It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part…

— Bill Taylor

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

— Anthony Hemingway

In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their…

— Trombone Shorty

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the…

— Jordan Flaherty