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" 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. "

Peter Hook

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Peter Hook

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

" 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!! "

" 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. "

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

Peter Hook

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" 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record. "

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

" The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. "

" The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life. "

" You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

" 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. "

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

" Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring. "

" 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! "

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

" You can't buy class. "

" I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. "

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

Peter Hook

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

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