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New Orleans has been a musician's paradise. But if musicians start leaving, that cool vibrant music ...
CHRIS LEE Presenting local music these days means flying New Orleans musicians back into town, putting them up...
JAY WEIGEL Hurricane Katrina may have silenced my hometown for now. But if we all work together through efforts...
ROGER LEWIS Musicians were living there, but there wasn't a scene before. It's not like the scene is dead here, ...
ANTHONY COLEMAN![]()
We wish we could get to New Orleans, but we don't know when that will be,
VINCE VAUGHN If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy D...
CHRIS ROSE In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a bett...
DONALD HARRISON The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musician...
ALBERTA HUNTER Oftentimes, musicians can play notes accurately, but they don't play music with the notes. I could s...
GLEN KWOK New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn'...
ANTHONY CANNON You could hear any sort of music all day long in New Orleans. But we won't really know for a while, ...
MARCUS BELGRAVE We were supposed to leave on the Amtrak Crescent to New Orleans, but we have a little problem down t...
GEORGE PIERCE![]()
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are bein...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. Something's wrong with New Orleans. Somebody wants that city gone.
JAMMAL BROWN![]()
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
TARYN MANNING The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no ...
ALBERTA HUNTER![]()
ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:
"If we could only open the gate and leave," says E...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS I don't want to leave New Orleans,
FRED RUSSELL![]()
Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on
Cory's guitar. "Dance, baller...
V.C. ANDREWS![]()
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real ab...
EDWARD EVERETT There's a strong perception in New Orleans that we don't leave. But it troubles me when I see report...
JEANNE HURLBERT![]()
If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be qu...
BILL DIXON We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had...
JEANNE CLARK If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
RAY DAVIES The main difference here is that Rita didn't affect a very populated area. If it had gone into Galve...
CHRIS LAUER It would be tragic if we rebuilt New Orleans and left if no safer than it was two weeks ago.
SCOTT FABER![]()
There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. B...
JOHN ZORN![]()
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS That was an example of someone that really demonstrated the potential of music on the film side. The...
MARK SMITH They never used it for the intended purpose, ... The whole intent was to give them resources so they...
BILLY TAUZIN They never used it for the intended purpose, ... The whole intent was to give them resources, so the...
BILLY TAUZIN![]()
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ...
JIMMY PAGE If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
RAY DAVIES I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.
DOUG THORNTON Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans...
JACK STEWART I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musici...
ROBERT MOOG The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe...
LAURA FREID![]()
I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and roc...
CHRIS CORNELL We worry that most of the city of New Orleans could end up being a toxic waste site.
ERIK OLSON The only reason I'd go back to New Orleans is for closure, ... My life has gone through a dramatic c...
HENRY JOHNSON Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to...
GEORGE CRUMB The musicians and we know that this is important to the future of the New York Philharmonic and of c...
ZARIN MEHTA When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ...
JEANNE FLEMING It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans m...
MICHAEL HURTT I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
BILLY SHEEHAN We had traces of our music that could be liked by the punk scene or the hardcore scene, ... But that...
CLAUDIO SANCHEZ We knew that (working in New Orleans) was going to be rough and we were all ready to buck up and do ...
CHRIS YORK It's one of America's food capitals. New Orleans gave us a sense that there could be a regional Amer...
CLARK WOLF The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the...
STEVEN PRICE![]()
The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. ...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT but it wouldn't be the historical New Orleans.
ARNOLD HIRSCH Essentially the health care infrastructure of New Orleans is gone it no longer exists.
JOE CAPPIELLO![]()
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the ...
DAVID MARSCHALL New Orleans has always been cherished for its unique French Quarter, its fabulous cuisine, and music...
DAN SULLIVAN Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."
-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE America is unimaginable without New Orleans. If you can imagine 20th Century literature without Tenn...
ANTHONY BARTHELEMY![]()
We are extremely grateful to Dave Matthews Band and the wonderful citizens of Denver for stepping up...
BRANFORD MARSALIS![]()
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te...
CHRIS CORNELL I was excited by what I felt could plausibly, hopefully be the melding of the dance and the music. I...
DOUG VARONE [Hurricane Katrina has challenged Seattle officials to] take a look at all our assumptions, ... We a...
GREG NICKELS We had freedom, but the one thing that Chris and I agree on is that good music doesn't have to be ju...
BILLY SHERWOOD If I had the choice, and it was at all feasible to operate in New Orleans, why would I move?
CRAIG MILLER We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ......
HARRY REID![]()
When we all walked in, you could feel their spirits being uplifted, like they felt very encouraged a...
KOBE BRYANT![]()
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other ...
JERRY SALTZ Right now, we're being told we'll leave Saturday and report to Lafayette, but that could all change ...
JASON HAYES If New Orleans passes on this opportunity to improve itself, then we're not going to be a company he...
DEAN TAYLOR New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.
MARK ADLER We knew New Orleans was a bad area. We never thought it would happen.
CLAUDE FORET Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going...
TIM RYAN There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to...
PAULA BROWN My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the ra...
MADELEINE PEYROUX another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose...
LEAH CHASE![]()
We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I was inspired by all the images coming out of New Orleans.
ARTURO SANDOVAL There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.
MARK STERN New Orleans was not healthful, not a positive place for me to be.
COURTNEY THIRSTY New Orleans is already messed up and everybody's already gone, ... It would be better ... instead of...
JAY BELLAMY Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I was in New Orleans for that fight. It was raining like heck, there were cars floating down the str...
HAROLD LEDERMAN![]()
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet w...
PICO IYER We talked to people at all levels about music. The next thing you know, we had tapped a nerve with m...
ANDREW SHAPTER It's all about New Orleans.
ELAINE PETROCELLI![]()
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT![]()
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX![]()
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradis...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD![]()
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during...
ANAT COHEN![]()
Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player w...
DON YAEGER![]()
If I were a thief, your belongings would be gone by now. Students leave all kinds of things lying ar...
LINDA HUNT The reasons we were convinced of Vivaldi's authorship are many and varied. Essentially, the new work...
JANICE STOCKIGT
CHRIS LEE Presenting local music these days means flying New Orleans musicians back into town, putting them up...
JAY WEIGEL Hurricane Katrina may have silenced my hometown for now. But if we all work together through efforts...
ROGER LEWIS Musicians were living there, but there wasn't a scene before. It's not like the scene is dead here, ...
ANTHONY COLEMAN
We wish we could get to New Orleans, but we don't know when that will be, VINCE VAUGHN If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy D...
CHRIS ROSE In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a bett...
DONALD HARRISON The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musician...
ALBERTA HUNTER Oftentimes, musicians can play notes accurately, but they don't play music with the notes. I could s...
GLEN KWOK New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn'...
ANTHONY CANNON You could hear any sort of music all day long in New Orleans. But we won't really know for a while, ...
MARCUS BELGRAVE We were supposed to leave on the Amtrak Crescent to New Orleans, but we have a little problem down t...
GEORGE PIERCE
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are bein... HARRY CONNICK, JR. Something's wrong with New Orleans. Somebody wants that city gone.
JAMMAL BROWN
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans. TARYN MANNING The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no ...
ALBERTA HUNTER
ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:"If we could only open the gate and leave," says E...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS I don't want to leave New Orleans,
FRED RUSSELL
Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly onCory's guitar. "Dance, baller...
V.C. ANDREWS
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real ab... EDWARD EVERETT There's a strong perception in New Orleans that we don't leave. But it troubles me when I see report...
JEANNE HURLBERT
If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be qu... BILL DIXON We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had...
JEANNE CLARK If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
RAY DAVIES The main difference here is that Rita didn't affect a very populated area. If it had gone into Galve...
CHRIS LAUER It would be tragic if we rebuilt New Orleans and left if no safer than it was two weeks ago.
SCOTT FABER
There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influ... QUEEN LATIFAH I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. B...
JOHN ZORN
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ... BRANFORD MARSALIS That was an example of someone that really demonstrated the potential of music on the film side. The...
MARK SMITH They never used it for the intended purpose, ... The whole intent was to give them resources so they...
BILLY TAUZIN They never used it for the intended purpose, ... The whole intent was to give them resources, so the...
BILLY TAUZIN
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ... JIMMY PAGE If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
RAY DAVIES I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.
DOUG THORNTON Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans...
JACK STEWART I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musici...
ROBERT MOOG The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe...
LAURA FREID
I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and roc... CHRIS CORNELL We worry that most of the city of New Orleans could end up being a toxic waste site.
ERIK OLSON The only reason I'd go back to New Orleans is for closure, ... My life has gone through a dramatic c...
HENRY JOHNSON Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to...
GEORGE CRUMB The musicians and we know that this is important to the future of the New York Philharmonic and of c...
ZARIN MEHTA When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ...
JEANNE FLEMING It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans m...
MICHAEL HURTT I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
BILLY SHEEHAN We had traces of our music that could be liked by the punk scene or the hardcore scene, ... But that...
CLAUDIO SANCHEZ We knew that (working in New Orleans) was going to be rough and we were all ready to buck up and do ...
CHRIS YORK It's one of America's food capitals. New Orleans gave us a sense that there could be a regional Amer...
CLARK WOLF The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the...
STEVEN PRICE
The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all... DAVID RUBENSTEIN My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. ...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT but it wouldn't be the historical New Orleans.
ARNOLD HIRSCH Essentially the health care infrastructure of New Orleans is gone it no longer exists.
JOE CAPPIELLO
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. HENRY ROLLINS Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the ...
DAVID MARSCHALL New Orleans has always been cherished for its unique French Quarter, its fabulous cuisine, and music...
DAN SULLIVAN Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."
-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE America is unimaginable without New Orleans. If you can imagine 20th Century literature without Tenn...
ANTHONY BARTHELEMY
We are extremely grateful to Dave Matthews Band and the wonderful citizens of Denver for stepping up... BRANFORD MARSALIS
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te... CHRIS CORNELL I was excited by what I felt could plausibly, hopefully be the melding of the dance and the music. I...
DOUG VARONE [Hurricane Katrina has challenged Seattle officials to] take a look at all our assumptions, ... We a...
GREG NICKELS We had freedom, but the one thing that Chris and I agree on is that good music doesn't have to be ju...
BILLY SHERWOOD If I had the choice, and it was at all feasible to operate in New Orleans, why would I move?
CRAIG MILLER We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ......
HARRY REID
When we all walked in, you could feel their spirits being uplifted, like they felt very encouraged a... KOBE BRYANT
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other ... JERRY SALTZ Right now, we're being told we'll leave Saturday and report to Lafayette, but that could all change ...
JASON HAYES If New Orleans passes on this opportunity to improve itself, then we're not going to be a company he...
DEAN TAYLOR New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.
MARK ADLER We knew New Orleans was a bad area. We never thought it would happen.
CLAUDE FORET Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going...
TIM RYAN There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to...
PAULA BROWN My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the ra...
MADELEINE PEYROUX another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose...
LEAH CHASE
We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. SEBASTIAN FAULKS I was inspired by all the images coming out of New Orleans.
ARTURO SANDOVAL There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.
MARK STERN New Orleans was not healthful, not a positive place for me to be.
COURTNEY THIRSTY New Orleans is already messed up and everybody's already gone, ... It would be better ... instead of...
JAY BELLAMY Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobo...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I was in New Orleans for that fight. It was raining like heck, there were cars floating down the str...
HAROLD LEDERMAN
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet w... PICO IYER We talked to people at all levels about music. The next thing you know, we had tapped a nerve with m...
ANDREW SHAPTER It's all about New Orleans.
ELAINE PETROCELLI
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party. KODI SMIT-MCPHEE But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradis... ALEXANDRA STODDARD
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during... ANAT COHEN
Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player w... DON YAEGER
If I were a thief, your belongings would be gone by now. Students leave all kinds of things lying ar... LINDA HUNT The reasons we were convinced of Vivaldi's authorship are many and varied. Essentially, the new work...
JANICE STOCKIGT
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Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi... 
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. 
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I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy. 
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#... 
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e... 
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... 
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. 
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I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ... 
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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. 
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. 
I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. 
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I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ... 
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have... 
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. 
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The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... 
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth... 
When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the ac... 
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately... 
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing... 
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. 
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... 
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. 
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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught... 
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There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. 
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You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life... 
Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati... 
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. 
You're only has good as your last haircut. 
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser... 