#orleans

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

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#death #life #new-orleans #nola #death

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. ↗

— Ray Davies

#crucial #die #disappear #heritage #music

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#between #cuba #exchange #go #had

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me. ↗

— Drew Brees

#back #badly #believe #care #i

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#away #baton #beard #beat #beatles

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

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

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

— Taryn Manning

#i #interesting #interesting place #location #most