Days Quote by Joey Ramone

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

— Jan Hammer

That's the way it was in New York City in the early Seventies, all the artists hung out together.

— Bebe Buell

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

— Walt Whitman

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

— Boy George

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool, amazing musician.…

— LP

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

— Ezra Koenig

New York is like a disco, but without the music

— Elaine Stritch

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 was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with…

— Art Buchwald

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting…

— Jim Jarmusch

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies.…

— David Bowie

In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French…

— Baz Luhrmann