Bernard Sumner Quotes

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

If you think of any strange fusion with bachata, most likely, we've done it. It's bachata mixed with different elements. We don't follow any style.

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

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

I really loved the hardcore alternative vibe Prince had on 'Dirty Mind.'

We've always wanted to aim to be the only one and hopefully one day we'll be able to create this new genre called Babymetal.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.