City Allure Quotes

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.