'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.

John Mellencamp

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Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.

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.

Alaska

Work Time Music

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.

Alexander Zverev

Time Wearing Wear

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

Amy Adams

Used Use Us

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

Ant McPartlin

Where Ted T

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

Carey Mulligan

Music Ways Way

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.

Charlamagne tha God

Legal Art You

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

Christie Hefner

Business Venue Us

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.

Chuck Schumer

Uses Use Us

My twenties were painful. You had to go out to nightclubs. I love not having to pretend to enjoy those things anymore.

Claudia Winkleman

Love You Were

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.

Cliff Stearns

Men Life Venues

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.

Daniel Ek

Sports Car Yin

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.

David Guetta

Life Art Were

Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.

David Levering Lewis

You Were Via

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

Work You Written

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

Dick Van Dyke

Work Worked Total

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.

Donatella Versace

Music Love Who

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

Eric Goode

Yup Up Then

When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.

Eric Goode

Young People Young You

I can only imagine there still have to be nightclubs where 21-year-olds go.

Eric Goode

Year Where Till

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

Eric McCormack

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

Erika Christensen

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

Frank Vincent

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

Gabe Kaplan

You won't really see me at any events, any nightclubs.

Georgia Salpa

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.

Greg Rucka

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.

Gregory Hines

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

Hozier

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Ian Hart

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

J. J. Cale

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

Jack Davenport

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.

James Gunn

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.

James Mercer

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

Janet Jackson

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.

Jeff Gutt

'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.

John Mellencamp

I was welcomed into some nightclubs in Chicago that no white man's ever been in.

Judge Reinhold

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.

Kaskade

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.

Lady Gaga

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

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

Lapsley

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.

Leon Russell

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

Leon Russell

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.

Louise Wilson

I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse me of being a dilettante and doing nothing. I was always on this unbelievable quest to go and do.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

Mark Lester

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.

Marshall Brickman

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.

Matisyahu

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.

Maz Jobrani

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.

Merrill Markoe