Chicago Quotes

Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.

Kurt Elling

HomeI AmChicagoWillWayAlways

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

Jeremih

FamilyChicagoI Was RaisedWhole

When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

R. Kelly

TogetherMeBasketballSongChicago

Chicago is amazing.

Justin Peck

AmazingChicago

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

Andrew Bird

FriendsChicagoMoreHandmadeThan

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Quincy Jones

FamilyGoodFatherChicagoPolicy

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

Jane Byrne

WorkCityWalkingChicagoEveryone

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

John McCain

PoliticsPartyChicagoSpecialNever

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Madonna Ciccone

LiveChicagoConservativeFactCause

With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

Jamey Sheridan

HopeMeSeeingChicagoWillAgain

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

Jeff Garlin

MeInfluenceChicagoHuge

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Jack Adams

EndChicagoIslandTaskMilesForce

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

Huey Lewis

ChicagoOutShowKnocked

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

Steve Carell

GreatFoodBestBurgerChicago

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

Ian Anderson

GreatChicagoGuitaristMicrophone

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

Gina Rodriguez

LifeMy LifeChicagoHip-HopAlways

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

Sun Ra

SpaceChicagoOuter SpaceExperiences

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

Hank Sauer

HomeGoKnowChicago

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

George Stigler

PriceSaidChicagoSingleExistence

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Robert Fulghum

FeelYouChicagoLikeAnt

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

Abigail Washburn

LifeWorldChicagoGrandparentsHuge

I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.

Freddie Gibbs

GameChicagoUnitedCenterStadium

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Mike Quigley

HealthSchoolViolenceChicagoSaw

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bailey Chase

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