Bryce Dessner Quotes

Everybody came from somewhere here in New York.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

You will find in the streets of New York every variety of architecture, just as you find in its libraries all the literatures of the world, and in its theatres all the music, and in its houses all the decorative arts.

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

...little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

People don't come to New York to ski. They cone for the arts.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.

I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.

I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.