“Civilization begins with distillation.” -William Faulkner “My great instinct is to be free. I found that in New Orleans.” -Tennessee Williams “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 who don’t.” -Chris Rose “If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom.” -Judy Deck “To get to New Orleans you don’t pass through anywhere else.” -Alan Toussaint “There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.” -Lord Byron “New Orleans, unlike a lot of those places you go back to and that don’t have the magic anymore, still has got it.” -Bob Dylan “Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.” -Anton Chekhov “A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons — make daiquiris.” -Chris Rose “Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.” -Buddy Bolden “You blows who you is.” -Louis Armstrong