Mardi Gras Quotes

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.

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

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

My family has been in New Orleans longer than the American flag has flown over the city.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.

You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

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

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we’re having a psycho reunion this week…Oh wait, it’s Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon)

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

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.

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.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.