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" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "
Peter Hook
Bands
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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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" New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. "
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" Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live. "
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" To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing. "
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" 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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" 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! "
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" 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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" You can't buy class. "
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" We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group. "
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" The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one. "
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Always
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" I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. "
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Business
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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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" I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division. "
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People
Division
Always
" There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. "
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Powerful
Songs
Play
" 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. "
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" The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special. "
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Special
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" The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life. "
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" Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.' "
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" Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. "
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" When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music! "
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" It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it. "
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" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "
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Big
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