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You can't buy class.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
Never lose the groove to find a note.
Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.
People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.
A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.
I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!
You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.
New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.
I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.
Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.
Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.
I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.