Bernard Sumner Quotes
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If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.
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With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
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I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.
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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.
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I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.
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Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
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I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
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I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.
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I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
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In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
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I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.