Orleans Quotes - page 2

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. (Branford Marsalis)
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. View quote
Delta Burke
And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other. View quote
Delta Burke
I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me. View quote
Drew Brees
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages? View quote
Danny Glover
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food? View quote
Emeril Lagasse
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. View quote
Frank Yerby
There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know. View quote
Geraldo Rivera
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. View quote
Jelly Roll Morton
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. (John Scofield)
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume. View quote
Ken Jeong
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? View quote
Lynn Westmoreland
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans. View quote
Michael Chertoff
My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. View quote
Michael Irvin
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. View quote
Mitch Landrieu
One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness. View quote
Mitch Landrieu
It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. View quote
Mitch Landrieu
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. View quote
Mortimer Zuckerman
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 the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. View quote
Pete Fountain
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. (Peter Max)
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. View quote
Paul Prudhomme
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. View quote
Paul Prudhomme
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. View quote
Ray Davies
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. View quote
Richard Burr