Stephen Dewaele quotes

Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.
-- Stephen Dewaele

#Dad #People #Labels

It’s when we say that we don’t love something that people get surprised. “I thought you guys liked everything!” The stuff I don’t like is the lounge-y muzak in restaurants, elevators and hotels. It really gets me angry, because it’s supposed to be in the background. It’s not supposed to be something that people listen to.
-- Stephen Dewaele

#People #Guy #Stuff

You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".
-- Stephen Dewaele

#Song #Beach #Thinking

It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? What’s the point? It’s like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! There’s a lot of noise pollution, in that sense.
-- Stephen Dewaele

#Kids #Phones #Noise

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

My dad was so much fun growing up.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.