Gary Krist Quotes
Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.

-Gary Krist
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And thus did Storyville become history.

-Gary Krist
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So much, it would seem, for the music that would eventually be regarded as the first truly American art form.

-Gary Krist
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This new black music represented excess and licentiousness, a direct flouting of traditional moral values.

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It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

-Gary Krist
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But there’s fear and there’s panic, y’know. Calm is what matters to the bees. Calm without fear is a peril, and fear without calm doubly so. But the man who can hold both at once within his breast will not be harmed.

-Gary Krist
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As one Victorian minister put it in 1868, “It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

-Gary Krist
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