Cultural Hotspot Quotes

Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

Nonresidents have a tendency to rush their visits to Harlem.

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.

You can never take Madrid for dead.

It just seems like Baltimore, talent-wise, nothing can touch it.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

We're very proud of our cultural life. Culture is to London what the sun is to Spain. It's a major driver for our tourism.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.