The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.