We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans musicians. It is called the Musicians Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. – Harry Connick, Jr.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. – Plato