Rhythm and blues Quote by Earl Johnson

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison

Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in…

— Frances Arnold

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I…

— Jose James

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where…

— Moby

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

— Willa Cather

I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting…

— Wynton Marsalis

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have…

— Tony Bennett