Vibrant Scene Quotes

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.

Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

Surrounded by a sweltering state known for its staunch conservatism, Austin is an oasis. It's home to the University of Texas, which continuously fosters a well-educated youth culture who have been funneling their collective creative energy into building a vibrant music, film, and technology scene for decades.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth.