#new orleans

I'd like to move back to New Orleans. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#i #like #move #new #new orleans

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

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#happens #home #may #new #new orleans

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#born #go #i #i was born #movies

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#citizens #composed #conspiracy #defendant #eminent

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. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#beautiful #call #culturally #diversity #focused

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#character #crazy #down #had #i

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#city #help #hide #new #new orleans

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. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#anywhere #being #else #geographical #get

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. ↗

— Boris Vian

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #else #everything