The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on th….
I don't act to live. I live to act..
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originat….
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago styl….
Now is the only thing that exists..
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . what….
I always wear make-up as I've never seen the point of looking less than your best..
A woman who is loved always has success..
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..
When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,n….
we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others….
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default..
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris..
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans..
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that….
I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all..
Great courage will be required to choose the right..
I took a lot from friends, but also me..
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from ….
When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it..
I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..