I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. – Kendrick Lamar
When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me. – Jim Jarmusch
I’ve been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It’s possibly one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever been involved with. – Karen Elson
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. – Mason Cooley
The band couldn’t have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst. – Jan Hammer
I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde. – Julie Harris
As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. – Lewis Hallam
Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody’s house to an open mic to coffeeshops. – Langhorne Slim
I’m from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times – maybe some would say dirty – jokes. But in jest. – Sarah Michelle Gellar
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it’s supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn’t find exactly that. – Richard Greenberg
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it’s full of cars, its shape and form didn’t get created around the automobile. – Paul Goldberger
Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites. – Rick Perlstein
Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing. – Richard Engel
I like to record records in Los Angeles. It’s less distracting than New York, where I was based. – Rain Phoenix
