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" What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism. "
Peter Hook
Life
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" Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. "
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" I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair. "
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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. "
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" I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division. "
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" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "
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" You can't buy class. "
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" I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both. "
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" 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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Me
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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. "
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" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "
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Exercise
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" Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. "
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" Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "
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" One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes. "
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" Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. "
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Manchester
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" 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. "
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Good
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" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "
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" I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. "
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" Accept what you did do, and live with it. "
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" Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure. "
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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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