New Orleans Music Quotes: top 26 famous quotes about New Orleans Music

New Orleans Music Quotes & Sayings

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I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. — Wynton Marsalis

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. — Henry James

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music ... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera. — Brad Pitt

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow. — Patti Smith

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. — Richard Wright

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal. — Anthony Mackie

I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that. — Bill Kreutzmann

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. — Jelly Roll Morton

It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other. — Jason Medina

survival of the fittest" - which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer — Douglas Brinkley

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. — Noam Chomsky

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann

You're mad," the fallen angel said.
"Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too. — Jim Butcher

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating. — Count Basie

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. — Lenny Kravitz

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing? — Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph. — Kanye West

There is no folly like the folly of the wise. — Jacqueline Carey

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

You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick. — Bo Diddley

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. — Steve Lacy

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult. — Sam Walton

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. — Ray Davies

The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. — Esi Edugyan

On the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out. — Laurell K. Hamilton