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Greenwich Village Quotes
Echoes of folk music's most storied neighborhood.
Greenwich Village has long drawn musicians and characters looking to be heard, and these quotes capture that history, from folk performers testing new material to the neighborhood's beatnik-era legends. See our Art quotes for more.
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- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
- Folk Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
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