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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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" The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals. "

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" To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together. "

" I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming. "

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

" 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. "

" It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician. "

" The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special. "

" We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! "

" I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music. "

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" Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful. "

" 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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" I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment. "

" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "

" Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret! "

" 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. "

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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. "

" When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts. "

" The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake. "

" 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. "

" Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way. "

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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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" The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' "

" When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable. "

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

" There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders. "