Baton Quote by Ornette Coleman

I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could…

— Sandra Bullock

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

— Jimmy Buffett

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard…

— Pete Fountain

My music was a mixture of everything New Orleans.

— Fats Domino

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

— Delta Burke

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed…

— Ruta Sepetys

I really missed being in New Orleans, but I'm one of the lucky ones.

— Robby Albarado

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal…

— Phil Anselmo

One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear…

— Danny Barker

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down.…

— AnnaLynne McCord

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

— Patricia Clarkson

The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and…

— Beth Moore