Bernard Sumner Quotes
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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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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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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
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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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I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
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I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
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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 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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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.
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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
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I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
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I never met Morrissey.
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The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
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I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.
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Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
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The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
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Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
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You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
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If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.