Quotes About Urban

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.

I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.