Wayne Kramer Quotes

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.

I like the small clubs.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

The way to reduce pollution in Detroit is to make automobile company executives drive in non-air-conditioned cars during summer rush hours. The way to get business to join the war on poverty is to make corporate executives drive through Harlem every day instead of going home on air-conditioned trains drinking martinis.

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

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

I appreciate Detroit so much.

Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been a strong point, fashion-wise, music-wise, all of that.

A lot of new genres were being born at the time I started going out to clubs in South London, and I was part of an exciting movement that has now blown up around the world.

I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.

There's no nightlife in Utah.

Detroit will always have a special place in my heart.

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

People make fun of Utah nightlife, but it's actually dope. I love it.