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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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
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
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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
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.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
It's not in my nature to be too literal.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
I never met Morrissey.
Bernard Sumner New Order
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Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
You can't escape from yourself, can you?
Bernard Sumner New Order -
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division
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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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.
Bernard Sumner New Order