Words matter. These are the best New Orleans Quotes from famous people such as Steve Zissis, Peyton Manning, Big Freedia, The Edge, Soledad O’Brien, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
New Orleans is home. That’s where the heart is.
Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning’s son, I felt like a target, and I’ve always known that whatever I’d do, people would hear about it. So I’ve had my guard up, and maybe that’s molded my personality.
Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that’s rock n’ roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone’s going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
You will never see Lil Wayne in New Orleans. You will never see those type of guys in New Orleans because the hate and the jealousy is that real and it’s that overwhelming.
Most people don’t know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground… in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That led to guest appearances at bars, which led to regular appearances at bars, which led to hosting. I eventually started working six days a week in bars before moving to N.Y.C.
I’ve worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.
When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That’s basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would’ve been, ‘I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.’
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn’t mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way.
I’m from New Orleans. There’s a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
I want to thank the people of New Orleans and south Louisiana. New Orleans is my hometown, and of course they support their own team, the Saints, but they also support their own, and that city and state have backed me from the start.
I’m all into Jazz; I’m into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I’m a huge southern gospel fan.
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.
New Orleans style is funky – it’s just as experimental as the city. There aren’t any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It’s probably the only place you’ll see people dancing in a funeral home.
‘Downtown Love.’ I made that with one of my homies in New Orleans. The story is tragic, and the song is emotional. It’s my favorite. I’m most proud of that; it’s such a creative piece.
New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.
Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I’m honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it’s a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You’re raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
New Orleans is like my blood; it’s not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I’ve learned over the years and add them to what I’m doing with the natural New Orleans sound.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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.
People in New Orleans have been so supportive of me and the team. I love walking around here, because the people have been great.
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.
New Orleans has a lot of good food.
I’ve grown in tremendous ways with enhancing my music, my ability to perform on stage and travel all around to spread bounce music. I’ve come so far from being that little black boy growing up in New Orleans to now.
I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.
I’ve been very proud of a lot of the work I’ve done in New Orleans.
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to… New Orleans.
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.
New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things… jazz, folk, Zydeco.
Gluttony is harder than it looks. It’s listed as a sin, as something you give in to, when really it’s a skill, requiring not just hunger but resilience. That’s why the most resilient city in the country, New Orleans, is also the most gluttonous.
Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren’t always obvious.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Wherever you’ve got a migrant culture, the food evolves and in New Orleans it’s that French and Spanish influence. So you get gumbo, which came out of French bouillabaisse, jambalaya – a version of paella – and the boudin sausage, which is like the French boudin.
Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.
All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.
I don’t know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.
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?
I love New Orleans.
Logistically, moving from Miami and New Orleans all the way to Seattle isn’t the easiest thing. Really, for my dog, she was kind of the biggest hurdle to get here.
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic – strict Catholics – from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
New Orleans is a great city. My favorite part is the music. I love being to walk on the street and dance with strangers. It’s really fun.
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
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.
You’re from Louisiana – you’re playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they’re rooting for me.
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.
I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, ‘Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?’ And I’m thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We’re the definition of ‘back.’ We’re the definition of ‘rebirth,’ of ‘renaissance.’
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
