Danny Meyer Quotes

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

My husband and I have very similar desires when we're entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

I love being at home, having friends over.

I'll be a host for life!

In my opinion, if you're entertaining guests, you should do everything possible to make them comfortable.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.

Everything at Airbnb is a continuation of what it's like to be a guest in somebody's house. We think about how each stage makes people feel.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

I'm a homebody, but I make people come to me, like, 'Everyone just come over, and we can have fun at my house.' I love to entertain.

The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

People are either born hosts or born guests.