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

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

" Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.' "

" 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! "

" Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize. "

" You can't buy class. "

" I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. "

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

" People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it. "

" We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. "

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

" Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little embarrassed or humble or whatever. But people were coming to see me because of New Order, so in the end, I had to realize that if they were using my name on the poster, then maybe I should play some of the music. "

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

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