24 Hour Party People Quotes

Tony Wilson: 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.

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

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Martin Hannett: 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.

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Tony Wilson: 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.

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Yvette: And what do you do?
Tony Wilson: How do you mean?
Yvette: You know, your job?
Tony Wilson: Well, I'm Tony Wilson.

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

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