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All Quotes by author - Bernard Sumner

" As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind. "

" As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life. "

" I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world. "

" I entered music at a poppy level. "

" I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard. "

" I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully. "

" If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life. "

" If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take. "

" I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school. "

" In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts. "

" I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible. "

" I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really. "

" I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction. "

" I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point. "

" It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film. "

" I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from. "

" Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak. "

" Landscape affects you. "

" One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing. "

" The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one. "

" The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them. "

" There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up. "

" There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit. "

" We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion. "

" With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons. "

" You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again. "

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