Can do Quote by Elliott Smith

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone…

— Frankie Cosmos

Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I'd be disappointed because songs about New York…

— Grace VanderWaal

New York sounds like something that I could really listen to. It's like a vibe; it's a hit song. It's a song that you…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

— Moby

I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die.

— Rostam Batmanglij

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

— David Harewood

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything…

— Tom Odell

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment…

— Henry Rollins

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different…

— Ai Weiwei

Being in New York, there's so much culture everywhere, and I just love the accidental textures of it: people and buildings, non-stop soundscapes, things…

— Noah Reid