Bill Dedman Quotes

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

I'm from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.

Pittsburgh is a great organization.

There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s. We watched businesses move overseas throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.

I'm from Buffalo, which is a blue-collar city, and I've kind of embraced that.