It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

I can eat a lot of pizza. And I can cook. I'm from New Orleans, so it's just in my blood.

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

I've started to fall for New Orleans recently. There's real life there, if you know what I mean.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

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

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

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

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

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.

I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.

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