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" You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.' "

" Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. "

" I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music. "

" I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. "

" 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!! "

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

" 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. "

" When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. "

" That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular. "

" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "