Nightclubs Quotes - Page 2

• America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

  Michael Bywater

  Beer, Night, Ideas

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• A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

  Jay McInerney

  Fashion, America, Achievement

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• It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

  Dick Gregory

  Law, White, Black

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• There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  New York, Cities, Average

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Needs, Sometimes, Social

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Party, People, Four

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• The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Practice, Ideas

  "This World: Playground or Battleground?". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1989.

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• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  Drew Carey

  Hair, Ties, Guy

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Night, Inspire, Soul

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• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Party, Moving, Media

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

  Carey Mulligan

  Loud, Hated, Loud Music

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• Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Morning, Fun

  "Carine Roitfeld: 'I want to show fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.

  Paul Walker

  Party, Phoenix, Rivers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

  Johnny Carson

  Dream, Hypocrisy, Letters

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.

  Rhett Miller

  Song, Girlfriend, Night

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• Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

  Norman Mailer

  Girl, Running, Fishing

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.

  Patrick Seguin

  Running, Morning, Sleep

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

  Nina Simone

  Drinking, Jazz, Heard

  Source: boscarol.com

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• I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position

  Rachel Uchitel

  Different, Levels, Clubs

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• Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

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• Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

  Pete Seeger

  Commercial Music, People, Interesting

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

  Lainie Kazan

  Mother, Father, Artist

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• FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS!

  Lionel Messi

  Want, Firsts, Being The Best

  Source: www.facebook.com

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• Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so I can make more of an impact when I do use it. A cause like One Billion Rising is something I want to scream about, and I want you to take that scream seriously because I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fall, Impact, Ideas

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

  Dick Gregory

  People, Easy

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