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“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.”

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Author: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.”

People Littles Play Problem Heard Musician Cat Forgiving Assuming Singers Assumption New Orleans Soulful Intonation

Author: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.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“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.”

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Author:Ruta Sepetys

“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.”

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Author:Steve Sabol

“New Orleans in an amazing town.”

Towns New Orleans

Author:Benjamin Walker

“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.”

Together America Cities Behinds Leaving New Orleans

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.”

Rapper New Orleans

Author:Anthony Mackie

“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.”

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Author:James Lee

“Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.”

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Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.”

“What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.”

People Way Mind Sides Replaced Rebirth New Orleans

Author:Steve Perry

“I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.”

People Way Pain Causes Sickness Shy Stomach New Orleans Good Way Shyness Physical Pain

Author:Ricky Williams

“I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.”

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Author:Glen Davis

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.”

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Author:Aaron Broussard

“I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.”

New Orleans

Author:James Gandolfini

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

Light Age Past House Magic Streets Strange Wander Pauses New Orleans

Author:Grace King

“My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“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.”

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Author:John Scofield

“It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.”

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Author:David Byrne

“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.”

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Author:Robbie Robertson

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

Wells Reading Right Now Battle Lists New Orleans

Author:George W. Bush

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

People Reason Enough Helping No Reason New Orleans Baghdad

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“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.”

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Author:James Carville

“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.”

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Author:Ray Nagin

“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.”

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Author:Bill Taylor

“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.”

People Government Action Turns Effort Iraq Crowds Lists Excellent Occupation Sparks Speakers New Orleans

Author:Ed Garvey

“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.”

Inspirational Light Poetry Painting Letters Welcome Addresses Forgiven New Orleans Hurricanes Spray Porch

Author:Andrea Gibson

“There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.”

People Way Situation New Orleans Unfolding

Author:Jeffrey Robinson

“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.”

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Author:Anika

“My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.”

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Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk

“New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.”

People Way Care Hours Cities Arguing New Orleans

Book:Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

“Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.”

People Asks Conversation Nfl New Orleans

Author:Peyton Manning

“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.”

People Ifs Different Bits Groups Bitter Canada New Orleans Baggage Dealing With People

Author:Lewis Black

“New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit.”

Heart Spirit Cities Teach Break Blood Embrace Tricks Poison New Orleans Wrecks August Liver Tennessee Just Kids

Author:Julie Smith

“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.”

People Art Ideas Spirit Levels Magic Sea Tradition Access Buried New Orleans Voodoo Haitian

Author:Sam Trammell

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

Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Lakes New Orleans Levees

Author:Bryan Batt

“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.”

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Author:Bryan Batt

“I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.”

Home Treats New Orleans Affinity

Author:Teena Marie

“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.”

Long Moments Night Cities Seeing Streets Filled Breathe Weekend Long Ago New Orleans Best Moments Bourbon Bourbon Street

Author:Ray Nagin

“Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.”

New Orleans

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

May Home Happens New Orleans Vegas

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.”

Ifs Want Helping Cities Teach About Yourself New Orleans

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“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.”

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Author:Russell Lynes

“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.”

Hours Laughing Television Bed Angry Saint Girlfriend New Orleans Flew My Girlfriend Remote Control Flew Up

Author:Shane West

“The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.”

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Author:Daniel Gillies

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