No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.
Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.
Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.
I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line. . . I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.
I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.
Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo. " "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.
Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.
