“When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.” FirstsKindLongRealStuffNew YorkGrewGrew UpRadioLocalsIslandsStationsSabbathZeppelinsRadio StationsLong IslandBeing Played Author:John Petrucci
“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.” RunningBornCommunityNew YorkGrewNeededRepublicanGrew UpDemocratNeighborhoodMarchBrooklynOur CommunityMarch On WashingtonBrooklyn New York Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.” WritingCultureFatherFeltNaturalCitiesFansNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpMusicianHip HopHipsHopsNew York CityHip Hop Music Author:El-P
“When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.” FirstsChildrenTwoKidsYoungUsedInterestingNew YorkGrewWalkingGrew UpDistanceZoosBronx Author:Garry Winogrand
“I'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the best of both worlds. I was super lucky to have a place where I could pretty much practice drums unperturbed. Obviously there were neighbor's complaints, but not very often, and I could get to the city easily by myself or with my parents.” WorldParentCitiesPracticeNew YorkGrewLuckyGrew UpNeighborComplaintsCountySuburbsBest Of Both Worlds Author:Guillermo E. Brown
“I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.” WayIdeasNew YorkGrewGrew UpPerformingDancer Author:Jillian Hervey
“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.” KidsFilmHouseNiceNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpHollywoodImpressionFlatsFarmsCowboyCozyHollywood Films Author:Andrea Arnold
“I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.” DiesPlayerNew YorkGrewGrew UpHonestlyGymRidersVolleyballMembershipHorsebackVolleyball PlayerHorseback Riders Author:Gigi Hadid
“I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly in the day, there was air pollution and light pollution, and you look up, and your sight line terminates on buildings. You know the sun and maybe the moon, and that's about it. So what happens is that I am exposed to the night sky as you would see it from a mountaintop, and I'm just struck by it. Suppose I grew up on a farm where I had that sky every night of my life - then you're not going to be struck by it. It's just the wallpaper of your nighttime dome.” KnowsLooksLightHappensNightLinesCitiesSunAirSkyNew YorkBuildingGrewMoonGrew UpSightLook UpFarmsNew York CityExposedEvery NightPollutionNight SkyNighttimeDomesAir Pollution Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then.” FeelsMightMotherGrowsChristChurchGrowing UpNew YorkGrewHusbandGrew UpLeavingIsolated1930sHarlem Author:Denzel Washington
“[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.” StyleNew YorkGrewGrew UpQueensHookedJuanRoommate Author:Mac DeMarco
“[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.” FirstsSchoolSidesChurchNew YorkGrewGrew UpLaborEastReformMinistersDepartmentTemplesStrictChairmanDutchMichiganOrganizerEast Side Author:Nat Hentoff
“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.” IfsImportantPlayShowsWantedSongGirlNextGrowingHeardMinutesNew YorkLike YouGrewTasteGrew UpTheaterMusicalHip HopPopsHipsHopsRitualTapeCdsShowing OffI Like YouPop SongMatingMusical TheaterCassettesHip Hop Song Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.” PeopleWorldBlackWhiteNew YorkGrewGrew UpTownsSouthernBlack PeopleTouristsSubwayColumbiaAstounded Author:Tony Kushner
“I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.” WantPersonsWhiteNew YorkGrewGrew UpPicksDoseHailCabHarlem Author:Queen Latifah
“Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.” FeelsNew YorkGrewAmountComfortableGrew UpSpendingBirthplaceOmahaBirth Place Author:Conor Oberst