In Popular Culture
- Great Jones Street is the title of a novel by the American author Don DeLillo.
- Great Jones Street is the title of a song by the American band Luna, from their 1994 album Bewitched.
- According to UrbanDictionary.com, the verb "Jonesing", a word used to describe an intense craving for a drug, comes from Great Jones Street, a former junkie hangout.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat was found dead here on August 12, 1988.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)