Curt Smith Quotes

I love Atlanta.

I just believe that in Atlanta, we're creative; we got a lot of styles out here.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown.

I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross' engineers are in Atlanta.

From the outside-in, Atlanta is kind of perceived as like popcorn. People don't respect it as having artists such as myself and EarthGang and other lyrical talents and album-worthy artists.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they're such musically-inclined areas.

Atlanta is a huge part of the music scene and a large part of Hollywood now.

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

My cousin lives in Delhi, so I kept visiting the city and got really fascinated with DU. Apart from studies, one also gets good exposure to music here. For an artist, there are a lot of opportunities in the city.