Eddy De Clercq Quotes

In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

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.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

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.

Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive.

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.

I like to move. Because that's where the action comes from.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

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].

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.

I don't like to sit and count my money and be a "happy entrepreneur".

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.

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

I travel all the time. I'm very restless you know.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

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.

Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.

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!