Cajun Culture Quotes

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

I'm home in New Orleans!

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.

Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I love bayou life.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

It's just the vibe I got when I landed in New Orleans. The culture is absolutely different. It's so dangerous, I tell you, I fly in and I fly out of town. That's how scared I am. And this is where I came from.

Cajuns eat Italian on Sundays.

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

I love Louisiana, and I love being from there.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Cajun culture is dying.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.