Seattle Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins

Change, Happen, Place

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
Layne Staley

Heart, Break, Bands

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
David Guterson

Wanted, Leave, Knew

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
Tom Robbins

Death, Might, Found

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Time, Made

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Eddie Vedder

Enough, Problem, Vision

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Quincy Jones

Music, Home, Writing

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
Dave Grohl

Work, Took, Drums

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
Rainn Wilson

Good, Different, Pretty

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson

Science, Dad, Parents

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
Rainn Wilson

Mom, Theater, Actress

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
Quincy Jones

Experience, Everything, Working

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.
Tom Colicchio

Food, Down, Revolution

Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere.
Tom Colicchio

Choice, Making, Listen

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Gordon Parks

Camera, Paid, Washington

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.
Tom Leykis

Women, Men, Home

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
Frances Farmer

Girl, Live, Bad

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
Kenny G

Learned, Road, Playing

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
Gary Locke

Through, Try, Calm

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
Gary Locke

Good, Days, Maybe

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
Gary Locke

Liberal, Assumed, Southeast

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
Gary Locke

State, Worked, Seek

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
David Guterson

Father, Law, Criminal

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
Anthony Weiner

Woman, Night, Down

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
Adam Jones

True, Far, Three

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
Josh Lucas

Down, Idea, Felt

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
Krist Novoselic

Crazy, Big, City

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
Krist Novoselic

History, Whole, Knew

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
Matt Cameron

Him, Try, Whenever

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