Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Fatboy Slim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English dj Fatboy Slim.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Fatboy Slim

Norman Quentin Cook, also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull-based indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of "Caravan of Love". After the Housemartins split, Cook formed the electronic band Beats International in Brighton, who produced the number-one single "Dub Be Good to Me". He then played in Freak Power, Pizzaman, and the Mighty Dub Katz with moderate success.

I make music for the hips, not the head.
I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.
Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip. — © Fatboy Slim
Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom
Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.
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