There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
I'm home in New Orleans!
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.
I just co-created a story for a Disney movie that I'm working on with my fiancée. And also about to finish up writing a T. V. pilot set in New Orleans that I'm really excited about. So I'm definitely trying to stay as busy as possible, for sure.
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to. . . New Orleans.
. . . as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else. " -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U. S.
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.
I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.