The song Dark Night by The Blasters was first featured on the 1985 album Hard Line. The earliest offerings of the song in popular culture can be found in the 1985 episode Whatever Works in season 2 of the TV crime drama Miami Vice. It experienced a resurgence in popularity after being prominently featured in the 1996 Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino film From Dusk Till Dawn as the opening and closing song. It also featured as the main theme in the 2005 hit motion picture, Dark Night.
Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or night:
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck—and, of course, courage.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
“The night is of the color
Of a woman’s arm:
Night, the female,
Obscure,
Fragrant and supple,
Conceals herself.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)