New Orleans Music Quotes
Collection of 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
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
"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
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