Book Quote by Thurston Moore

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

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

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly…

— Lana Del Rey

New York is like a disco, but without the music

— Elaine Stritch

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

— Moby

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It…

— Jonas Mekas

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

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 was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in…

— Huey Lewis

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein

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

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