New Orleans is one of the truly unique places in the USA. Its passion for food, music and culture are known all around the world and I think this is why it is a favorite when it comes to travel destinations.
If you haven’t been inspired enough to visit this cool city yet, I would recommend taking a look at these cool New Orleans quotes and captions that I’ve collected. I’ve even divided them based on music, food, culture and more so that you can skip directly to the part that interests you.
Oh and while you are in the city, I would recommend heading out to all the best Instagram spots because pairing these captions with an epic photo is the way to go!
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📷 Want to make sure that you have the best photographs in New Orleans? I recommend booking a photo tour in the French Quarter. Not only do you get amazing pics, you also have a local guide! 📷
Table of Contents
Short New Orleans Quotes And Captions
1. When in New Orleans, let the good times roll!
2. There is nothing quite as vibrant as New Orleans!
3. New Orleans is unstoppable.
4. New Orleans is calling and I must go.
5. Either you love New Orleans or you must reevaluate your choices.
6. Once you get a taste of New Orleans you will never be the same.
7. Life is better in New Orleans.
8. My heart is in New Orleans and I keep going back.
9. If I had to pick a happy place I would say New Orleans.
10. New Orleans is the city of dreams.
11. Wander the French Quarter.
12. My soul lives in New Orleans.
13. It is a New Orleans thing. I doubt you would not understand.
14. Let the good time roll.
15. Life is one big party.
16. Young, wild and free.
17. It’s one blur of fun.
18. “Aint no place like New Orleans. It’s one of a kind.” – Aaron Neville
19. “New Orleans has a real spirit. It’s the most authentic of all American cities.” – Brad Pitt
20. “Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.” — Bob Dylan
21. “New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me – it’s in my blood.” – Aaron Neville
22. “I think of New Orleans as a gift from heaven for a writer.” – James Lee
23. “New Orleans is an amazing town.” – Benjamin Walker
24. “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.” — Bob Dylan
25. “In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It’s probably the only place you’ll see people dancing in a funeral home.” — Trombone Shorty
26. “You’ll never know what heaven means until you’ve been down to New Orlean.” – Elvis Presley
27. “I have a love/hate relationship with the city of New Orleans.” – Nicolas Cage
28. “How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Sometimes I think it was predestined.” — Andrei Codrescu
29. “New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.” — Trombone Shorty
30. “In New Orleans, culture doesn’t come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets.” — Ellis Marsalis
31. “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.” – Louis Armstrong
32. “I’m not sure, but I’m almost positive, that all music came from New Orleans.” — Ernie K. Doe
33. “You don’t need a guidebook to see New Orleans. Just a good pair of shoes.” – Jonah Hill
34. “There is no place on Earth even remotely like New Orleans.” – Anthony Bourdain
Long New Orleans Quotes And Captions
35. “I want to thank the people of New Orleans and south Louisiana. New Orleans is my hometown, and of course they support their own team, the Saints, but they also support their own, and that city and state have backed me from the start.” – Peyton Manning
36. “I’m not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is.” — Chris Rose
37. “New Orleans is my kind of city. I think there’s a lot going on, but it’s also very calm. It’s a place where I can actually drive a car without being stuck in traffic for 40, 50 minutes. It’s my kind of city. A lot going on but still calm.” – Zion Williamson
38. “I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long-lost perfume.” — Anne Rice (Interview With a Vampire)
39. “I live in New Orleans, because it’s the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there’s nowhere else remotely like it.” – Nathaniel Rich
40. “If I could put my finger on it, I’d bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it — the climate, the smells. It’s the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there’s an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.” — John Goodman
41. “I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.” — Harry Connick Jr.
Sayings About New Orleans
42. “When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 AM, New Orleans is coming alive.” — Mannie Fresh
43. “If you’re open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.” — Laurell K. Hamilton
44. “New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.” – Nicole Gale Anderson
45. “If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom.” — Chris Rose
Quotes About New Orleans Food
46. The beignets have my name on them.
47. In New Orleans just for the food.
48. On Bourbon street with a cocktail in each hand.
49. “New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.” – Toyah Wilcox
50. “New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.” — Mark Twain
51. “New Orleans has a lot of good food.” – Lee Byung-Han
52. “In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.” – Anthony Bourdain
Mardi Gras Quotes And Captions
53. Every else. It is just Tuesday.
54. Mardi on. Party on.
55. Life is one big parade.
56. Mardi is the life of the party.
57. Mardi is about to get jazzy.
58. What happens at Mardi Gras stays in Mardi Gras.
59. Sparkle, glitter, whatever…
60. Beads and bling and the other Mardi Gras things.
61. Loop me!
62. Bling bling bling
63. Pass me those beads.
64. “Mardi Gras is in our soul.” — Kim Priez
65. “An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.” — Mark Twain
New Orleans Quotes And Captions About Writing /Writers
66. New Orleans is the soul of a writer and the heart of a poet.
67. “New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse…” – Henry Connick Jr
68. “Mardi Gras is a state of mind.” — Ed Muniz
New Orleans Quotes And Captions About Music
69. The Jazz notes vibrate through my soul.
70. If music is what you love. New Orleans will call to your soul.
71. The city of music.
72. New Orleans is the city that sings.
73. “There’s so much music going on in New Orleans.” – Anthony Hemingway
74. “New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.” – Trombone Shorty
75. “You should create the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.” – Francoise Sagan
📷 Want to make sure that you have the best photographs in New Orleans? I recommend booking a photo tour in the French Quarter. Not only do you get amazing pics, you also have a local guide! 📷
And there you have it. These are my rather humble collection of New Orleans quotes and captions for Instagram and beyond. Truth be told, they often serve as a reason and an inspiration to visit the city.
Which is your favorite New Orleans quotes and captions? Let us know in the comment below.
