Allen Toussaint Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”
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“And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.”
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“To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.”
-- Allen Toussaint
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