Quotes from Tom Piazza

Nothing in New Orleans starts on time, and this practice was no exception.

It is a lesson that one has to learn continually in New Orleans. Things are always more complex than they seem.

Nagin is a decent man

Not manic and hell-bent like New York

the city one knew and recognized, lived in and loved the way you love a person.

The H&R has always been the home base of the Wild Magnolias and their Big Chief, Bo Dollis.

New Orleans inspires the kind of love that very few other cities do. Paris, maybe Venice, maybe, San Francisco, New York….

Chief Bo as the center, dressed, in 2005, in bright red feathers, with beadwork that should be in a museum and probably will be someday

trombone—the audience is a working model in three dimensions of the music, a synesthesic transformation of materials. And of course the band is also watching the dancers, and getting ideas from the dancers' gestures. The relationship between band and audience is in that sense like the relationship between two lovers making love, where cause and effect becomes very hard to see, even impossible to call by its right name; one is literally getting down

Music was my entry point into the world of the spirit that New Orleans embodies.

The life he heard over the phone was his life.

Say thank you, he thought. Say it and keep saying it until you believe it.

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.