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" 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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" 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. "

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" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "

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

" 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. "

Peter Hook

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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. "

" There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet. "

" 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. "

" Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live. "

" The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one. "

" What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. "

Peter Hook

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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. "

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

" Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure. "

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

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

" One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes. "

" New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. "

" 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. "

" There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not. "

" When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music! "

" You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away. "

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

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

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

Peter Hook

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" When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument. "

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" Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. "

" Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. "