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" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "
Peter Hook
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" 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. "
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" When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier. "
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" What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. "
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" Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order. "
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" A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that. "
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" I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both. "
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" When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up. "
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Me
Balance
" We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret! "
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" I love that young bands will do anything to succeed. "
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Will
" The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!! "
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Quality
Great
Done
" Accept what you did do, and live with it. "
Peter Hook
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Accept
" 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. "
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People
Write
" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "
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Frustration
Big
Same
" My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything. "
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Always
Mother
Expect
" At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it. "
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Age
Travel
Class
" When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts. "
Peter Hook
Joy
Play
Sea
" New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. "
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Anything
New
Division
" The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it! "
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You
Sad
Rise
" Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. "
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Disappear
Black
People
" You can't buy class. "
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You
Buy
Class
" 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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Suffering
Today
Music
" I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have. "
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Think
I Am
Important
" I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't. "
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Who
" 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. "
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" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "
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Children
Exercise
Always
" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "
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Tends
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" 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. "
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Steal
Never
Bass
" The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one. "
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Always
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" 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. "
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Doing
Music
New