Bernard Sumner Quotes
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I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
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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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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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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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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 entered music at a poppy level.
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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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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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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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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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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.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
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I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
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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.
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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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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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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.
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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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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.
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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.