New Orleans Quotes

• An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

  Mark Twain

  United States, Mardi Gras, States

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

  Chris Rose

  Giving, Daiquiris, Life Gives You Lemons

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Catalyst, Wounds

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• New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Criminals, Sin

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• You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.

  Dr. John

  Dies

  Song: Down in New Orleans

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  Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

  Louis Armstrong

  Heart, Eye, Looks

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• There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

  Danny Barker

  Passing Away, Half, Advise

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• America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

  Tennessee Williams

  New York, Cities, San Francisco

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• People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

  David Simon

  People, United States, States

  Source: progressive.org

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• There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Trying, Earth, Compare

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• Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

  John Kennedy Toole

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.476, LSU Press

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• We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

  Grace King

  Past, Light, House

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

  Bob Dylan

  Ideas, Good Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Inspiration, Home

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Sex, Cities, Sin

  "Sony" press release, January 2007.

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• New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Real, Past

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Home, Vegas, May

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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Cities, America, Diversity

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

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• In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  America, Might, Wonderful

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• we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  Laughing, Funeral, Radio

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• How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Sometimes

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• The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

  Tom Piazza

  Past, Cities, American Cities

  Tom Piazza (2015). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

  Francoise Sagan

  Song, Laughter, Wine

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