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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.

~Allen Toussaint

Topics: Also Breathing Escapist Everything Garden Lift Me Misery Music New New Orleans Orleans Out Role Short Take Up You

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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

Topics: Aloof Anywhere Anywhere Else Being Else Geographical Get Hold Keep Lets Location More New New Orleans Onto Orleans Other Own Pace Pass Places Progress Ritual Than Through Up You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 14th, 1938

Died: November 10th, 2015

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