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" 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!! "

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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. "

Peter Hook

Music

Important

Everyone

" I love that young bands will do anything to succeed. "

" When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up. "

Peter Hook

Plan

Balance

" 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. "

" It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. "

" 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. "

Peter Hook

End

Humble

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

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

" 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. "

" I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't. "

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

" I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. "

" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "

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

Peter Hook

Because

" 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. "

" 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! "

" When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless. "

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

" '24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning. "

" You can't buy class. "

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

Peter Hook

You

Want

" 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. "

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

Peter Hook

Sharing

Concerts

" I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae. "

" I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's music. It's a great testament to the chemistry and the songwriting prowess between the four original members. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. "

" 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. "