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" We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see. "
Peter Hook
Need
Decide
Going
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" When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable. "
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" When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument. "
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" 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. "
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" Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring. "
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" 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record. "
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" 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! "
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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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" When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. "
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Started
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" 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. "
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Change
End
" 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
" The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' "
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Play
Bass
Hear
" 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
Hope
Gun
Remember
" There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. "
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Finished
Siren
Any
" You can't buy class. "
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You
Buy
Class
" 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
" What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. "
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Me
You
Want
" Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful. "
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Music
Important
Everyone
" 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
Me
Balance
" 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. "
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Joy
Music
Great
" People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter. "
Peter Hook
Hide
Go
Fighter
" 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! "
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Now
America
Never
" 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! "
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Finding
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Think
" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "
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Bands
Whole
Songs
" We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret! "
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Secret
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Loved
" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "
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Whole
Life
Been
" Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. "
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Become
Culture
" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "
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Children
Exercise
Always
" My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. "
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Go
Always
Conservative
" Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! "
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Us
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