Quotes About Urban

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street.

Those who are complaining about Bombay's law and order should be sent to U.P. and Bihar - only then they will realize how safe and secure Bombay is.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

There's a lot of concern that London is changing and artists are being forced to move to new areas.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I don't like condo life.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.

I didn't want to go see mountainous areas as a kid - I wanted to be around town, around New York, around Connecticut.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

The conscious decision, early on, was that I was going to live in New York. That was it.

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

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

When I'm not working, I go for runs. I live around many parks, so it's nice to feel like you're not surrounded by the city.

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.