Creative Hubs Quotes

In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.

All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.

What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

We want artists to stay in London. It's very important culturally and economically, but there are lots of challenges in terms of finding space.

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

The creative sector is incredibly important to London's economy in a number of different ways.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

All great art is born of the metropolis.