Dr. John Quotes

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

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

I started singing because I come from Wales.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

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.

Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.

The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.

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.

What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

I don't care about the brand. I care about the country.

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Society is our extended mind and body.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.