The Club King Quotes

“Je ne suis pas la banque à Jos Violon!”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“Pursuit of happiness is a guaranteed constitutional right, and it isn’t supposed to be dependent on the music you like or the color of your skin.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“I wasn’t totally naïve about the risk—just naïve enough, and just bold enough, to go through with it.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“Everywhere I looked when I was growing up, people seemed to be cutting corners and performing mean-spirited acts, simply because there wasn’t enough money to go around. Generosity was a luxury. I wanted to live in a better world than that.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“Writer H. L. Mencken’s classic definition of puritanism suited Rudy Giuliani to a T: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“To anyone who didn’t personally experience the sixties, it’s difficult to convey the degree of upheaval going on in the world just then. The old order got demolished, uprooted, transformed. Everything seemed to be in flux all over the world: social conventions, politics, race relations, fashion, art, music—everything.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“Looking back, that might have been the first crack in the brutal logic of the faith, the first sign that questioning the teachings of the Church could be an option.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

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― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“For better or worse—and much of it was for the worse—what was happening in culture in the 1970s was disco.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“As Bob Hope reportedly joked, that’s how I learned to dance, living in a house with a big family and one john.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“Mayors of paper-mill towns are fond of grandly pronouncing “That’s the smell of money” whenever anyone points out the odor.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“I had heard about ayahuasca in the sixties, when we called it yagé, and psychedelia pioneers like Timothy Leary and William S. Burroughs endorsed its benefits.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

“The thing about a rut is that, while limiting, it’s also comfortable.”
― Peter Gatien, The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife