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It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I entered music at a poppy level.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I think in South America people are very, uh, they have no inhibitions and wear their hearts on their sleeves - what's the word? They're very expressive, demonstrative.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
Bernard Sumner New Order
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We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division