3,292 Quotes About New-york

  • Author Patti Smith
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    New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me. New York is the thing that perverted me. New York is the thing that converted me. And New York is the thing that I love too.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

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  • Author Paul Scheer
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    Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

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  • Author Paul Simon
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    I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

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  • Author Pete Seeger
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    I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

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  • Author Peter Stone
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    Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

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