Orleans Quotes

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

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 best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

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.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

There's certain things in life that I love.

One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.

Everywhere else is Cleveland.

You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told.

Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans.

When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

New Orleans - New Orleans (/ˈɔːrl(i)ənz, ɔːrˈliːnz/, locally /ˈɔːrlənz/; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃] (listen)) is a consolidated city-parish located

US Orléans - Union Sportive Orléans Loiret Football (pronounced [ynjɔ̃ spɔʁtiv ɔʁleɑ̃]; commonly referred to as US Orléans or simply Orléans) is a French association

Louise of Orléans - Louise of Orléans (Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle; 3 April 1812 – 11 October 1850) was a French princess who became the first Queen of the Belgians

Orleans (band) - Orleans is an American pop rock band best known for its hits "Dance with Me" (No. 6 in 1975); "Still the One" (No. 5), from the album Waking and Dreaming

The Maid of Orleans - The Maid of Orleans may refer to: Joan of Arc "The Maid of Orleans" (poem), a 1730 unfinished poem by Voltaire The Maid of Orleans (play), an 1801 historical

Duke of Orléans - Duke of Orléans (French: Duc d'Orléans) was a title reserved for French royalty, first created in 1344 by Philip VI in favor of his son Philip of Valois

Orléans Cathedral - Orléans Cathedral (French: Basilique Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans) is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Orléans, France. The cathedral

House of Orléans - The 4th House of Orléans (French: Maison d'Orléans), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans (French: Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it

The Orleans - The Orleans is a hotel and casino located in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. It includes the large multipurpose Orleans Arena

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans.

And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

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.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else.

That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

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.