Nightclubs Quotes

Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.

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.

My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That’s not me.

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It’s funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.

In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It’s like college all over again.

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don’t go to nightclubs. I don’t go out to dinner that often. I’m not a big party guy.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn’t care, I was free.

I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realise how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room – press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

I can play characters who sing, but I don’t like singing in a nightclub or something. It’s not my metier.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

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

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.

‘Jack & Diane’ was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn’t like it.

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.

A more complex – but only slightly more original – way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.

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

A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

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.

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin’ dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn’t want to work in nightclubs.

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

It was when I met everybody on ‘The Perfect Score’ that, like, nightclubs became a thing.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

You see mob guys when you play in nightclubs. It’s part of the protocol.

When I went into Bobby’s World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

I don’t go out anywhere. I don’t go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There’s all kinds of lighting effects, there’s all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they’re in for a show. I believe in romance.

I’m a nightclub comic. That’s what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

It’s great being a producer! Why am I wasting my career writing and directing? Those are actual jobs in which you work. Being a producer, it’s kind of like you just go to the set, yell at a couple of people, and then stay up all night dancing in nightclubs.

When I was 12, my mother took me to nightclubs. She had no idea how to parent.

And I’d spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff – paying your dues, I guess.

I will go out and have some fun. You can’t lock yourself away forever. But it’s not me you’ll see stumbling out of nightclubs.

When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians, in non-Jewish nightclubs and going all over the world – getting out of the shtetl – opened me up to having experiences that other religious men might not have to think or worry about.

I forgot,” Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. “Faeries have no sense of humor.” “Oh, I wouldn’t say that,” said Jace. “There’s a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not,” he added, “that I have ever been there.

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I’d go so far out of my way – living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs – to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I’d be gay all the way.

I am fine with ‘Puppy Love.’ I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. ‘Puppy Love.’

The fact that I’m often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don’t have a good sound system.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

I was going to do business studies in Newcastle because there were a lot of nightclubs. My father said if I went that route, he’d never speak to me again: credit where credit’s due.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Today’s terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

We’re never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don’t go to places where there are photographers hanging out.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don’t stay.

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.

I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs.

I don’t go to nightclubs or discoteque. That’s not going to happen. I wear Zegna all the time. Outside of the court, I’m wearing Zegna. That’s all I’m wearing.

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

If hotels are replacing nightclubs, then they’re replacing nightclubs for yuppies.

On a personal note, I used to work for years out on South Beach, running security in nightclubs and doing bodyguard work.

Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.

So I’m in my 51st year of playin’ mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

I get to work a lot of times in nightclubs and large theaters, so I wanted to make music that is fun to perform in those settings. But I also wanted to contrast it with really serious, sincere ballads.

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.

I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye West was with her, but he didn’t speak. He just looked at me.

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

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

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that’s the reason you’re doing television – to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

I’m the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn’t want to run it into the ground.

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?

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan’s glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing style, Nightclub City is a gritty social history of America’s most glitzy fantasies.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

I’m a pretty chill person. I’m kind of a homebody and I like to just hang out with friends and have dinner. I’m not, you know – I’m definitely not Neal Caffrey in the sense that I’m not, you know, drinking a $500 bottle of wine at a nightclub. I’m just – I’m pretty chill.

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

At 3 o’clock in the morning on tour when you’re sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you’re drunk in a bar or in a nightclub. But having said that, 9 in the morning on tour sober is immeasurably better than 9 a.m. on tour when you’re hung over and feeling like death.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

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

At heart, I guess I’m a saloon singer because there’s a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let’s just say that the place isn’t important, as long as everybody has a good time.

I don’t run with anybody’s herd. I don’t like crowds. I don’t like going to fancy places. I don’t like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don’t get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

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.

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

My behaviour in the past wasn’t too bad. But let’s say it was not in keeping with the Islamic faith’s demands. Nightclubs, for example. People tell me it’s not a big deal if I go to them – but I don’t do it any more.

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he’s produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

When I was young, all I wanted to do was go to nightclubs, drink, have fun and be unproductive.

My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed anything in Moncks Corner, you saw Larry McKelvey.

Maybe 10 times a year I’ll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

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.