Orleans Music Quotes
- My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift… — Allen Toussaint
- I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. — Wynton Marsalis
- My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann
- My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all… — Madeleine Peyroux
- I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. — Steve Lacy
- The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in… — Wynton Marsalis