English - Musician | February 13, 1956 -
I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.
Peter Hook
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Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
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I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.
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Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'
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My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
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'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
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Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
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I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
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Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
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I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
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'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
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The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.
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