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All Quotes by author - Peter Hook

" '24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning. "

" Accept what you did do, and live with it. "

" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "

" America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it! "

" And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive. "

" Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order. "

" A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that. "

" At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it. "

" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "

" Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could. "

" Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually. "

" But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it. "

" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

" Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! "

" For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there. "

" Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music. "

" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "

" I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. "

" I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have. "

" I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head. "

" I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing. "

" I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't. "

" I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there. "

" I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. "

" I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of. "

" I love that young bands will do anything to succeed. "

" I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour. "

" I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. "

" I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize. "

" In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. "

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