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" In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. "

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

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

" I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there. "

" 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. "

" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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" Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order. "

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

" 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. "

" I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of. "

" 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. "

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

" They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though. "

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" 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! "

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "