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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.
In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.
This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
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.
I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
I'm steady trying to make this bounce stuff mainstream and do some wonderful and great things for the culture of New Orleans.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
People in New Orleans have been so supportive of me and the team. I love walking around here, because the people have been great.
Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
I love to eat. I'm from New Orleans. I eat like nobody's business. So to find a workout that I actually look forward to is a lifesaver.
New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose