#new york city

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#band #city #dove #drum #drum set

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City. ↗

— Steve Burns

#bother #calm #calm down #city #cleaner

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#city #cool #expect #hip #i

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#born #city #every #exist #grew

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#captain #city #cup #davis #davis cup

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#common #even #gay #gay marriage #going

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#beautiful thing #city #map #most #new

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes. ↗

— John Guare

#city #financial #goes #i #jones

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. ↗

— John Guare

#city #george #george steinbrenner #i #i think

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. ↗

— John Guare

#believe #center #city #however #i