New Orleans Quotes - Page 13

• I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Team, Inspiration

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• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Years, Jazz

  1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

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• All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

  John Hagee

  Believe, Heaven, Religion

  Interview with Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. April 23, 2008.

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• You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mistake, Moving

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• Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.

  Christine Feehan

  Mean, Eye, Missing

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, Breathing

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• Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, Cities, Leaving

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press

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• As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

  Louis Armstrong

  Beautiful, Heart, Brass Bands

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• Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

  Aaron Broussard

  Trials, Murder, Congress

  "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.

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• I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

  Amanda Palmer

  Home, Australia, Austin

  "Amanda Palmer on being a "social musician" in the crowd-sourcing era". Interview with TashaR, music.avclub.com. September 10, 2012.

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• My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Unique, Thinking

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• New Orleans is a unique environment.

  Steve Earle

  Unique, Environment

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• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, Humanity, Habitat

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• I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Cities, People, Trying

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• I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Moving, Boys, Pace

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• I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Government, People, Doubt

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• I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Moving

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

  Nicolas Cage

  Louisiana, Interest

  "Interview with Nicolas Cage from 'G-Force'". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, Sitting, Agents

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  Cards, Investment, Social

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• At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

  Tom Piazza

  Mother, Sick, Spirit

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• New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Home, Doors

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.

  Richard Ford

  Memories, Self, Cities

  "Elegy for my city" by Richard Ford, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

  Jamie Foxx

  Party, Men

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