Quotes by New Orleans I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community. Joel Plaskett new-orleans stars cities If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here. John Goodman smell new-orleans guy I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman appreciate new-orleans stuff All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that. John Hagee new-orleans heaven believe There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. John Hickenlooper devastation new-orleans looks The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive. John Kennedy Toole despair new-orleans hands ... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces John Kennedy Toole golden-days new-orleans dog Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. John Kennedy Toole new-orleans cities heart Oh, New Orleans is such freedom. John Kennedy Toole new-orleans I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go. John Ratzenberger new-orleans nice fun The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. John Scofield levels new-orleans thinking I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62. Johnny Ramistella jimmy gigs new-orleans At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time. Jon Pareles vintage new-orleans tunes New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' Jonah Hill new-orleans islands kids It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got? Jon Stewart new-orleans stupid prayer If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly? Joseph J. Romm new-orleans government sea On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. Joseph J. Romm fate new-orleans cities The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. Joseph J. Romm new-orleans cities sea You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected. Joseph Stiglitz iraq new-orleans people New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit. Julie Smith new-orleans august heart «4567891011121314»