Quotes by Eddy De Clercq - Page 1

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.
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Everyday
Mirrors
Nightlife
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In your daytime life you have to be more strict.
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Daytime
Strict
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I travel all the time. I'm very restless you know.
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Knows
Restless
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I like to move. Because that's where the action comes from.
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Action
Moving
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I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.
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Believe
Genes
I Believe
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I don't like to sit and count my money and be a "happy entrepreneur".
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Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.
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Guy
Moments
Sometimes
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Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.
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Dutch
Economy
These Days
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In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.
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Daytime
Nightlife
Stars
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A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.
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People
Scene
Together
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I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.
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Identity
Spirit
Thinking
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In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.
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Pay
People
Want
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There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.
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Connections
Musical
Successful
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Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.
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Clubs
Important
Want
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My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.
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Beats
House
Play
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Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!
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House
Mind
Years
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I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.
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Opportunity
Inspire
People
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Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive.
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Fun
Messages
People
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The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.
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Dutch
Long
Pay
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Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.
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Cities
Party
People
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Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.
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Design
Avant Garde
Character
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Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".
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Innovative
Making Money
People
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Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].
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Ducks
People
Ponds
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I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.
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Catholic
Differences
Thinking
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If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.
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Great Music
Looks
Scratches
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That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.
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Fake
People
Real
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I probably am very sensitive for energies that come together at the right moment. And that energy, I like to transform it into a party or a club. Something that becomes real.
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Party
Real
Together
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I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.
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London
Mean
Party
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When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.
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Dog
Dutch
Superstar
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That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.
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Ambition
People
Real
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If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.
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Genuine
Introducing
Something New
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People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.
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Creative
People
Spiritual
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In nightlife you can do anything you want, because that is the fantasy life, the opposite of your daily life. Everything - except violence - is tolerated. And that is why it is so surrealistic in a way.
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Nightlife
Opposites
Want
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Don't forget that at the end of the 70s people were much more into wild experimentation and hedonistic adventures. There was not really a fear of sexual diseases like HIV or aids back then, all that came later.
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Adventure
Hiv
People
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I remember a discussion with a panel of experts, I asked a question to one of the moderators: "Why is it so difficult for a foreign DJ to play in a club in London?" And you know what the guy said? "Get better than the English."
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Get Better
Guy
Play
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When you go to a club you can talk intimately to strangers you have never met before. And they will tell you things that will be shocking to hear. Because, on the whole, people behave honestly in this situation. At the same time they can be very false.
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Clubs
People
Stranger
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The way Electronic Dance Music [EDM] is manipulated and exported to the world is a very strong, and "total" concept. But it's not that interesting artistically. EDM is seen by some media as a kickstarter for kids who have no idea how deep dance music can go.
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Kids
Media
Strong
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The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything is centred around the action from the stage. It doesn't even demand action coming from the crowd! Passive consumerism or something. Mayhem with an overwhelming sound that isn't actually good music. More like diarrhoea.
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Light
Perfect
Sound
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