New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta
New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
‐‐ Vera Wang
New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'
‐‐ ASAP Rocky
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
‐‐ David Chang
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
‐‐ Ira Sachs
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
New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott
New York has a great energy, but London is better.
‐‐ Jaime Winstone
New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.
‐‐ Debbie Harry
New York has always embraced me.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci
New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle
New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.
‐‐ Graydon Carter
New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.
‐‐ Chris Gibson
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
‐‐ Edmund White
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
‐‐ Josh Lucas
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
‐‐ Steve Albini
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
‐‐ Simeon Strunsky
New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I've found one or two places that allow me to forget deep dish for a while.
‐‐ Scott Adsit
New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
‐‐ Radha Mitchell
New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
‐‐ Victoria Justice
New York in the '60s was amazing.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
‐‐ Mika
New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish
New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
‐‐ John Updike
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
‐‐ Italo Calvino
New York is a fantastic city.
‐‐ Marat Safin
New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
‐‐ Max von Sydow
New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.
‐‐ Emma Roberts
New York is a good city for not having to get fat.
‐‐ Nell Carter
New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.
‐‐ Patti Smith
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
‐‐ Catherine Mary Stewart
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
‐‐ Kathleen Battle
New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.
‐‐ Justin Tuck
New York is a lot more fun than L.A.
‐‐ Sara Paxton
New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
‐‐ Kiran Desai
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
‐‐ Rafael Yglesias
New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
‐‐ Patrick Ewing
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler
New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith
New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.
‐‐ Jane Curtin
New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
‐‐ Johnny Carson