"I'm proud to be a New York hippie,
I'm proud of dirty feet and dirty hair,
I'm proud of living with the cockroaches,
I'm proud of living in a garbage can."
-David Peel

"Washington Square was a place where people you knew or met congregated every Sunday, and it was like a world of music. . . bongo drums, conga drums, saxophone players, xylophone players, drummers of all nations and nationalities, poets who would rant and rave from the statues. You know, those things don't happen any more, but back then, that was what was happening. It was all street. . ."
-Bob Dylan

"The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead."
-Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton