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" Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way. "
Peter Hook
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" When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts. "
Peter Hook
Joy
Play
Sea
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Going
Wrong
Think
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Business
Bear
You
" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "
Peter Hook
Bands
Whole
Songs
" When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable. "
Peter Hook
Comfortable
Music
Sound
" And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive. "
Peter Hook
Like
Because
Up
" 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! "
Peter Hook
Finding
Problem
Think
" 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. "
Peter Hook
New
Unique
Successful
" The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. "
Peter Hook
Things
New
Okay
" A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that. "
Peter Hook
Soul
Tortured
He
" New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. "
Peter Hook
Anything
New
Division
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Great
Me
Time
" Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. "
Peter Hook
Manchester
Sarcasm
Trait
" The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' "
Peter Hook
Play
Bass
Hear
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Division
Money
Joy
" I love that young bands will do anything to succeed. "
Peter Hook
Love
Young
Will
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Treat
Joy
Know
" When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless. "
Peter Hook
Together
Writing
You
" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "
Peter Hook
Whole
Life
Been
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Look
Anger
Angry
" When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music! "
Peter Hook
Listen
Want
Playing
" What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. "
Peter Hook
Me
You
Want
" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "
Peter Hook
Affair
Tends
Music
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Good
Work
You
" 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record. "
Peter Hook
Corruption
Division
Joy
" I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. "
Peter Hook
Gets
Always
Government
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Powerful
Songs
Play
" 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. "
Peter Hook
You
Playing
Got
" Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful. "
Peter Hook
Music
Important
Everyone
" 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. "
Peter Hook
Music
Cake
Joy