Tom Piazza Orleans Quotations

I don't see how there could be any future for New Orleans without music.

At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.