New Orleans Quotes
'Leonie' did get made and it was an extremely wonderful experience. I got to travel the world. I filmed for 6 months - 3 months in New Orleans and 3 months in Japan.
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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.
You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.
At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.
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.
In his speech President Bush said we need to rebuild Iraq, provide the people with jobs, and give them hope. If it works there maybe we'll try it in New Orleans.
I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.
I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.
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.
The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.
I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.
I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.
The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.
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.
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
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.
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.
He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.
Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.
She gazed at him alluringly and grinned. No further words were necessary.
It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.
It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.
Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.
He couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have found a girl like her. She may have been the perfect woman for him.
I didn't dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.
Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.
The fight wasn’t over, ” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.” Probably. “Right, ” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.