#greenwich

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humor #writing #humor

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. ↗

— Gregory Corso

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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. ↗

— David Amram

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

— Weegee

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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. ↗

— Carly Simon

#even #greenwich #greenwich village #i #look

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

— Yancy Butler

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Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. ↗

— Gregory Corso

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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 the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#back #father #got #greenwich #greenwich village

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

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

— Roger McGuinn

#because #california #called #came #got