Quotes from Eddy de Clercq

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

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.

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

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

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.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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