Quotes About Culture

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

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

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'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.

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

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

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 always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

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.

I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.

New Orleans made me who I am.

The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.

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

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 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.'

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.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

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