Beats Quote by Roger McGuinn

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich…

— Roger McGuinn

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still…

— David Amram

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his…

— Ralph Bakshi

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan,…

— Anne Waldman

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

— Yancy Butler

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me,…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired…

— Tom Folsom

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there…

— Blake Bailey

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

— Anonymous

I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the…

— Joseph Mitchell

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of…

— Gregory Corso