Broadway Quote by Sir Mix-a-Lot

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

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

When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol and about…

— Carrie Brownstein

There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.

— Chris Cornell

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like…

— Jon Fishman

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You…

— Alan Rickman

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with…

— Kirstin Maldonado

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

— Chris Cornell

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

— Dimebag Darrell

I remember in the days when we started, when we first went on the road, we went to Berkeley and played with Exodus. We…

— Jeff Hanneman

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

— Randy Johnson

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains…

— Mike D