24 Hour Party People quotes

40 total quotes

Martin Hannett
Multiple Characters
Tony Wilson

View Quote Tony Wilson: What's wrong with London Records?
Rob Gretton: The name, for a start.

View Quote [At a gig at the Hacienda] And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man starts dancing. Welcome to Manchester.

View Quote [On learning how much came out of the music budget to build the Hacienda] Well, this is goodbye. I mean, we obviously have nothing in common. I'm a genius, you're all ****ing wankers. You'll never see me again. You don't deserve to see me again.

View Quote I'm being postmodern, before it was fashionable.

View Quote Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

View Quote [About the music scene surrounding the Hacienda] It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces throwing us wider and wider. But it's all right, because there's this brilliant machine at the center that's going to bring us back down to earth. That was Manchester. That is the Hacienda. Now imagine the machine breaks. For a while, it's even better, because you're really flying. but then, you fall, because nobody beats gravity.

View Quote [On Joy Division's drumming] There was nothing wrong with the drumming as such. It's just people have been playing like that for the past 20,000 years and quite frankly I'm ****ing bored with it.

View Quote [After Lindsay storms off when catching him with the prostitute; to Lindsay] I love you! [To the prostitute] Don't stop.

View Quote Tony Wilson: You know, I think Shaun Ryder is on a par with W.B. Yeats as a poet.
Yvette: Really?
Tony Wilson: Absolutely.
Yvette: Well, that is amazing, because everybody else thinks he's a ****ing idiot.

View Quote Factory Records are not actually a company. We are an experiment in human nature. You're labouring under the misapprehension that we actually have a deal with, er, with our, our bands. That we have any kind of a contract, er, at all, and I'm afraid we, er, we don't because that's, er, that's the sum total of the paperwork to do with Factory Records, deal with, er, their various bands.

View Quote This scene didn't actually make it to the final cut. I'm sure it'll be on the DVD.

View Quote [About the Happy Mondays] Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

View Quote [When catching Lindsay having sex with another man out of spite] I just got a blowjob. That's full penetration.

View Quote I have protected myself from ever having to sell out by having nothing to sell out.

View Quote [after Shaun Ryder fires a gun in his general direction] You want to be careful with that, Shaun. You could take somebody's eye out.