Behinds Quote by Gilad Atzmon

I moved to New York to pursue music.

— Sharon Van Etten

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously,…

— Jon Gordon

My music career is why I moved to New York in the first place.

— Renee Rapp

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov…

— Steve Earle

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 loved playing the saxophone.

— GRiZ

Moving to New York City and playing and listening with the wonderful music community that we have here has really been the guiding force…

— Sunny Ozell

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up…

— Ornette Coleman

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling…

— Kat Edmonson

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

— Flying Lotus

My music was a mixture of everything New Orleans.

— Fats Domino

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and…

— Tycho