Peter Hook Quotes

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.

What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

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.

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.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

My favourite singer ever in the world is Ari Up from The Slits. Her voice is amazing to me. It's carefree, but it's also really amazing.

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.