Peter Hook Quotes and Sayings
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Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
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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!
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And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
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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.
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Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
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I love dance music, it started with me in '88 and has never left me. It's what I consider to be my driving music, whenever I'm in the car!
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
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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.
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I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
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In fact, Steven's daughter didn't know what a CD was. They don't want to be bothered to put one on. They want to push a computer button.
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It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
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It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
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It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
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Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
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One of the sad facts of this world is that as you try and balance your group life against your home life, everything takes longer.
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
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That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
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The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
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The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
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The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
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There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
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They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.
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This LP from start to finish is the longest we've ever done, which was three and a half years. God knows how long the next one's gonna be.
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We came straight out of the studio into six months of promotion then into festivals for six months. We've never really had any time off.
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We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
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We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
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We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
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When we stopped New Order and had to start again there was obviously going to be a gap, which to the fans seemed like a quite long one.
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When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.
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- 30
Yeah, but the excitement of driving around town is palpable. My experience with downloading is not... I'm not computer friendly. My children are!
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- 31
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
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