Quotes About New Orleans

I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He thought I was this actress living in New Orleans and it was my first job.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.

I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.

All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.

In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.