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If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
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ALLEN TOUSSAINT Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
DAMON ALBARN It's part of the culture of New Orleans. It's part of the soul.
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GARY F EVANS... New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music,...
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CLIVE DAVIS New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.
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SAM TRAMMELL The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture w...
BILL BURKE In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
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NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.
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GLORIA IRVING My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. ...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT I am honored to be a part of the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans this year.
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CHRIS LEE It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans m...
MICHAEL HURTT When you get that kind of development it becomes the Disney World type of New Orleans - very differe...
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SPIKE LEE It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the populati...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a...
PAYAL KADAKIA It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is ...
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BENNY GREEN It is part of our heritage and part of the landscape.
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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KATE BALDWIN It will reveal a lot about the power structure of New Orleans.
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DAVE DAVIES So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, w...
NORMAN DAVIES You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the concep...
PAUL DAVIES When seniors first come here, they're apprehensive. But once they're here, they see that it's a warm...
BARBARA DAVIES The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. T...
ALAN DAVIES This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.
NORMAN DAVIES