San Francisco Quotes

"San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco"

Rosie O'Donnell, Comedian

"San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be"

Les Claypool, Musician

"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"I used to be a street singer in San Francisco"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism"

Pete Stark, Politician

"Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside"

Michael O'Donoghue, Writer

"If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of"

Jeff Garcia, Athlete

"The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week"

John Hall

"I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco"

Amy Irving, Actress

"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives"

Freddy Fender, Musician

"We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved"

John Breaux, Politician

"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco"

Douglass North, Economist

"Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884"

Calamity Jane, Soldier

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