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Greenwich Quotes

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don’t know him - probably most don’t know - was a folk singer. He’s kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up Picture Quote #1

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Picture Quote #1

I couldn’t help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village cafÃƒÂ© Picture Quote #1

My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there Picture Quote #1

I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might’ve beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home Picture Quote #1

We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a ‘beatnik’ was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists Picture Quote #1

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I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What are you going to do? Can’t say - run for president, write - Greenwich Village? Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink Picture Quote #1

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open mic night at a Greenwich Village café Picture Quote #1

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with ‘The Waste Land,’ I opened their copy of ‘Ulysses.’ The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic Picture Quote #1

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation Picture Quote #1

My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City Picture Quote #1

You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It’s, uh... changed. It’s now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it’s still a very beautiful part of New York Picture Quote #1

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist’s life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city Picture Quote #1

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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in ‘American Psycho.’ In 1993, every day was ‘let’s get lost.’ I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found Picture Quote #1

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If the parks be the lungs of London we wonder what Greenwich Fair is - a periodical breaking out, we suppose - a sort of spring rash Picture Quote #1

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Dave Van Ronk, for those who don’t know him - probably most don’t know - was a folk singer. He’s kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up. (Greenwich Quotes) Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph (Greenwich Quotes) I couldn’t help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village cafÃƒÂ©. (Greenwich Quotes) My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. (Greenwich Quotes) I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might’ve beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home. (Greenwich Quotes) We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a ‘beatnik’ was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists. (Greenwich Quotes) I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents. (Greenwich Quotes) 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. (Greenwich Quotes) 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. (Greenwich Quotes) What are you going to do? Can’t say - run for president, write - Greenwich Village? Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink. (Greenwich Quotes) My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany. (Greenwich Quotes) 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. (Greenwich Quotes) I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open mic night at a Greenwich Village café (Greenwich Quotes) My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with ‘The Waste Land,’ I opened their copy of ‘Ulysses.’ The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. (Greenwich Quotes) I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation. (Greenwich Quotes) My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City. (Greenwich Quotes) You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It’s, uh... changed. It’s now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it’s still a very beautiful part of New York. (Greenwich Quotes) When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist’s life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. (Greenwich Quotes) I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in ‘American Psycho.’ In 1993, every day was ‘let’s get lost.’ I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. (Greenwich Quotes) I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation (Greenwich Quotes) 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 (Greenwich Quotes) I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Greenwich Quotes) 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 (Greenwich Quotes) If the parks be the lungs of London we wonder what Greenwich Fair is - a periodical breaking out, we suppose - a sort of spring rash (Greenwich Quotes)