Seattle Quotes

131 Seattle quotes by 95 unique authors

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle. — Al Yankovic
I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there. — Randy Johnson
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more… — Stone Gossard
I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New… — Eric Lefkofsky
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. — Joey Santiago
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… — Jonathan Raban
We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better. — Eddie Vedder
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in… — Reggie Watts
In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of… — Mario Batali
Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game… — Charles Woodson
I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of… — Kenny G
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. — Dave Grohl
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave. — David Guterson
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. — David Guterson
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle… — Frances Farmer
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge. — Adam Jones
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I… — Quincy Jones
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big… — Quincy Jones
I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night… — Tom Leykis
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind… — Unknown Author
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young… — Apolo Ohno
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. — Gordon Parks
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who… — Steven Pinker
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The… — Jonathan Raban
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. — Tom Robbins

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