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21 " Nagin is a decent man, "
― , Why New Orleans Matters
22 " the city one knew and recognized, lived in and loved the way you love a person. "
23 " The H&R has always been the home base of the Wild Magnolias and their Big Chief, Bo Dollis. "
24 " New Orleans inspires the kind of love that very few other cities do. Paris, maybe Venice, maybe, San Francisco, New York…. "
25 " Chief Bo as the center, dressed, in 2005, in bright red feathers, with beadwork that should be in a museum and probably will be someday, "
26 " trombone—the audience is a working model in three dimensions of the music, a synesthesic transformation of materials. And of course the band is also watching the dancers, and getting ideas from the dancers’ gestures. The relationship between band and audience is in that sense like the relationship between two lovers making love, where cause and effect becomes very hard to see, even impossible to call by its right name; one is literally getting down, "
27 " Music was my entry point into the world of the spirit that New Orleans embodies. "