Orleans Quotes - page 7

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. (Nicole Ari Parker)
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. View quote
Paul Prudhomme
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street. View quote
Richard Simmons
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto. View quote
Robbie Robertson
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans. View quote
Russel Honore
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor. View quote
Ray Walston
New Orleans is a unique environment. View quote
Steve Earle
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. View quote
Steve Lacy
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986. View quote
Steve Sabol
It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me. (Sung Kang)
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. View quote
Tim Cahill
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life. View quote
Trombone Shorty
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own. View quote
Teena Marie
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. View quote
Wendell Pierce
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city. View quote
Wendell Pierce
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. View quote
Wendell Pierce
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes. View quote
James Carville
I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. View quote
Tennessee Williams
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I don't believe that [blacks in New Orleans immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina]couldn't afford a bus ticket out of New Orleans for a minute- they might not be able to drive out in a brand new Lincoln, but they could afford a bus ticket. (Mike Rosen)
What you won't hear, except from me, is that 'Let the good times roll' is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society. ... 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, [the] Japanese aren't blacks. View quote
Steve Sailer
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. View quote
Anne Rice
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art. View quote
Anne Rice
So we pour it in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans, neon arabesques of motels, marooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish ... View quote
William S. Burroughs