Fatboy Slim quotes

“A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom”
-- Fatboy Slim

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“I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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“On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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“I make music for the hips, not the head.”
-- Fatboy Slim

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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“Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.”
-- Fatboy Slim

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“In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.”
-- Fatboy Slim

#Party Quotes #England Quotes

“I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.”

“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”

“A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.”

“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”

“I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.”

“Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.”

“It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.”

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

“Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.”

“Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.”