Joy Division Quotes
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
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I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.
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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
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When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.
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I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.
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You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.
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Landscape affects you.
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The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
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If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.
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If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.
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Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
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There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
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I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
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It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.
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Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.
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I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I
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You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
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If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.