“Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Whoever picks up this baton has to be able to carry it forward,”
Ian Holloway
“Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.”
Igor Markevitch
“The uncle, the one that nobody one knew where he was at, is in Baton Rouge, ... We're still looking for some cousins. My grandfather — he came up. It's just a blessing, but I have so many family members that have just lost everything. Their homes and everything. I have a bunch of friends that are just traumatized. There's still a lot of people they haven't heard from. Their family members, parents, kids separated from their moms.”
Warrick Dunn
“I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the only city in America that has its own brand of music.”
Randy Jackson
“When Mark Fields and Anne Stevens took over it was clear the baton had been passed to another generation.”
Maryann Keller
