#seattle

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#big #big bands #biggest #charlie #dealing

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart. ↗

— Layne Staley

#break #first #heart #out #seattle

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. ↗

— George Stigler

#graduated #i #next #next year #northwestern

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#culture-identity #seattle #truth #love

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ↗

— Chief Seattle

#conservation #nature #quote #nature

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.' ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#every #every time #hearing #i #instead

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#comes #go #him #i #jones

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#bad girl #began #calling #girl #got

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians. ↗

— Jack Irons

#broadcasts #did #family #first #i

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context