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Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on
'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.
At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.
I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.
I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.
There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.
I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.
To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!
Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'
The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.
The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.
Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.
One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.
Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.
Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.
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.
The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.
When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.
There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.
The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!
The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.
You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.
For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.
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.
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.
All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
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.
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.