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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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
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
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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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
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.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
Bernard Sumner New Order
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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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
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.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
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.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant