Quotes About Music

Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.