24 Hour Party People quotes

40 total quotes

Martin Hannett
Multiple Characters
Tony Wilson

View Quote [Whilst hosting 'Wheel of Fortune'] Welcome to the Wheel of Fortune. There it is, the wheel that throughout the centuries has been used as a symbol for the vicissitudes of life. Boethius himself in his great work 'The Consolation of Philosophy' compares history to a great wheel, hoisting us up, then dropping us down again. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Raise yourself up on my spokes if you wish, but don't complain when you plunge back down" Now spin the wheel.

View Quote Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as spirituality.

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

View Quote I'm a minor character in my own story.

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

View Quote Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the latest craze sweeping the Pennines. I've got to be honest with you... right now I'd rather be SWEEPING the Pennines.

View Quote Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

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