Quotes About New Orleans

I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.

New Orleans just embraces people who love music.

The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided youth.

The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar's, and they called me immediately and said let's do a regular night with you here. So we started FEMA Fridays. It was the only club open in the city, and a lot of people had a lot of money from Katrina, the checks and stuff, so the joy inside that club - I don't think that'll ever come back.

But I'm not an Atlanta Falcons fan. Nobody is. Sure, the team has its followers, its adherents, in Atlanta. But they don't follow the team the way fans from other teams follow their teams - the way, say, fans of the New Orleans Saints follow the Saints.

You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.

I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.

New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms of music and art and people and history.

I love it here in New Orleans.

I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the community. That's every city, but New Orleans is just different. We have big hearts, but it's just a matter of us having the information, having the people to push you along like I had.

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

That year the Louisiana Highway Department hired New York's Robert Moses, the one whom everyone revered as the most progressive highway planner in the nation, to address New Orleans's traffic problems. Moses' solution was to ring the city with multilaned expressways that would bring automobiles and trucks to the city's core.