Bernard Sumner Quotes
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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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Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.
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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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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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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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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.
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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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Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
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I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
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I never met Morrissey.
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You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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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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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'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
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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 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'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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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.
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The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
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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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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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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.