New Orleans Quotes - Page 11

• I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sometimes, Feels

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• I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

  Anika

  Beautiful, Garden, Thinking

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• In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Years, Jazz, Birth

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• In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.

  Lewis Black

  People, Different, Canada

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  Sam Trammell

  Art, Sea, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

  Bryan Batt

  Growing Up, Lakes, Grew Up

  "'Mad Men's' Bryan Batt takes your questions". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

  Bryan Batt

  Art, Dining, Fabric

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• One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

  Ray Nagin

  Weekend, Night, Long Ago

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• Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Expression, Blood

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• While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.

  Shane West

  Girlfriend, Flew Up, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan - because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.

  Steve Sailer

  Japan, Earthquakes, Contrast

  "Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare". www.vdare.com. September 03, 2005.

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• Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.

  Troy Andrews

  Morning, Jobs, Pride

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• I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.

  Troy Andrews

  Artist, Creative, Guy

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• There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

  Zutty Singleton

  Country, Jobs, Vegetables

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• Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

  George W. Bush

  Reading, Battle, Lists

  "Talking Books With The President". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2006.

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• There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Baghdad, Helping

  "Hurricane response could sink Bush". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 6, 2005.

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• Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.

  James Carville

  Government, Hurricanes, Coast

  James Carville's Speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum, January 27, 2006.

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• The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

  Ray Nagin

  Years, Sea, Feet

  Archived press release, friendsoftheearth.uk. September 01, 2005.

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• It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.

  Bill Taylor

  Cities, Roots, People

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• We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.

  Ed Garvey

  Government, Iraq, People

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• And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Light, Poetry

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• I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States.

  Erin Heatherton

  Thinking, Cities, United States

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• What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.

  David Simon

  New York, Cities, African American

  Source: progressive.org

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• As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

  Louis Armstrong

  Home, Brass Bands, Years

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a bank and try to borrow $10,000 and use that song as collateral, they wouldn't know what to do. They would run me out of the bank. Whereas if we get specialized people who know how to appraise the value of intellectual property like songs, catalogs and master recordings, they know how to put some type of value on it. They have this in Nashville and Los Angeles. New Orleans is just starting to get it.

  Chris Thomas King

  Running, Song, Nashville

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