Quotes of: Greenwich Keyword

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

Yancy Butler

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

Weegee

He stilled my room, for sure.

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Suze Rotolo

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

The Last Leaf

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

A Freewheelin' Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, “I am nature.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe,” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

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

Gregory Corso

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

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

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

Nobu Matsuhisa

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

Gregory Corso

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

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gus Van Sant