Bernard Sumner Quotes
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If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.
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I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.
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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.
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You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
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New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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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.
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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.
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I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
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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.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
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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.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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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.
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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
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I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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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.
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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.
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If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.