Voodoo Culture Quotes

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

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

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

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

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

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.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

I'm home in New Orleans!

I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.