I’m very fond of Tennessee Williams’ plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw ‘A Street Car Named Desire.’
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.
New Orleans is New Orleans. It’s a great city and fun and great food. It’s one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.
New Orleans has a lot of good food.
I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.
I’m from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
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.
It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I’ll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back – nobody cares there because I’m not J.J. Watt.
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.
New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don’t like people sitting down.
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.
Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.
It’s crazy, everytime I’ve played in New Orleans’ stadium, it’s always big-time, it’s always a good vibe and I just love the indoor environment, the black, the entire environment.
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.
Most Americans never work as hard as when they’re trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don’t bother with that.
I’m from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.
‘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.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.
My initial training was on the keyboard – mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There’s been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don’t really see myself as a White mayor. I’ve never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh’s vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in New Orleans.
I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.
I’m steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content – blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of things. My mother didn’t keep me away from other music. She only kept me away from rap. The closest I got to rap was D’Angelo.
I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the ‘scared of’ to the ‘not scared of’ list.
New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He went from New Orleans to Chicago to New York, and when he arrived here, he taught those New Yorkers. New York needs that infusion.
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class – the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y’know?
No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It’s one of the only cities where you can hang out with the Marsalis family, the Neville brothers, whoever it might be, and we all play together.
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.
My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.
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.
Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.
New Orleans cats don’t play a lot of solos unless they got something to say. It’s not an ego thing like it is with some other musicians. You say what you gotta say and then shut up.
Jimmy Graham over in New Orleans started a whole new type of position almost to where he was trying to get paid like a wide receiver. He was split out more than 50 percent of the time.
My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi – Creole people.
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water – water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just – everywhere.
I’ve known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on ‘Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous’ from his days at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows.
I come from the city of New Orleans where it’s live and vibrant.
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I’ve been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don’t twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.
It’s a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.
Being gay and coming up in New Orleans was not easy. At first I was very terrified and very timid.
I’ve lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans – it’s so unique and so European. There’s nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.
I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it.
The answer to New Orleans’s levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions you could go. Every night, it was different. Every night. It was a different town 7 nights a week and twice on Sunday.
Going down to New Orleans, that’s where I end up with the best meals.
New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
The city itself, I like the vibes of New Orleans.
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.
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.
