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Allen Toussaint Quotes

«the great American songbook.»
«It was the real thing ... When we were recording, sometimes we'd make a 'human fade' - we would just play softer and softer. We didn?t have any overdubbing. When one guy took a solo, the other guys would stand up and snap their fingers and dance around the studio. We were having a wonderful time.»
«holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.»
«[Yet other artists and culture mavens say that the city has always swayed to its own meandering rhythm and will somehow find a way to keep following its riffing, improvisational instincts.] 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, ... Lady Marmalade.»
«Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.»
«Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues).»
«Southern Nights.»
«Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurried, and he plays very unhurried. His life is that way. And as for being an ambassador for New Orleans sound and New Orleans music, he's doing it to the bone.»
«It's surprising to me how much has happened in such a short length of time,»
«This is quite a time. Maybe the most unique time ever for me. But I can't thank everyone enough for what they've done for New Orleans. We have really gotten a chance to find out who we are at a time like this. And where we are. We're in the greatest country in the world.»