#orleans

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

— Amy Sedaris

#channel #cover #festival #great #i

At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit? ↗

— Tom Piazza

#new-orleans #rebuild #business

There was no control except the "mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history, electronic history, those who said later that Boldon broke the path. It was just as important to watch him stretch and wheel around the last notes or to watch nerves jumping under the sweat of his head. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#jazz #new-orleans #change

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#buses #had #his #mayor #new

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. ↗

— Peter Max

#back #comes #highlight #like #new

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#find #fun #had #i #interesting

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. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#been #before #bit #feel #few

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. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#bottom #choose #get #gotten #mind

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#father #full #i #jackson #kinds

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#escape #get #new #new orleans #orleans