Greenwich Village Quotes
28 Greenwich Village quotes by 24 unique authors
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was…
— Norman Mailer
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I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
— Joe Manganiello
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I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of…
— Burl Ives
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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the…
— Gregory Corso
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I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family…
— Ralph Bakshi
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
— Yancy Butler
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be…
— Steve Forbert
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to…
— Roger McGuinn
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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco…
— Alan Watts
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We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled,…
— John Lennon
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Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the…
— Aravind Adiga
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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang…
— David Amram
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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his…
— Tom Folsom
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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and…
— Gus Van Sant
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
— Carly Simon
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I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a…
— Augusten Burroughs
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What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot…
— John Lennon
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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
— O. Henry
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I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have…
— Mary Cantwell
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My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I…
— Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade…
— Yochai Benkler
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in…
— Blake Bailey
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
— Weegee
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I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
— Roger McGuinn
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