#new orleans

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. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor. ↗

— Ray Walston

#got #i #kid #later #little

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? ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#appropriate #back #billion #changing #come

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages? ↗

— Danny Glover

#brings #city #come #create #else

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.' ↗

— Jim Hightower

#believe #bush #disaster #failed #farm

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. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#confederacy #dunces #i #i think #new

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. ↗