Peter Hook Quotes

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

My music is like my freedom space.

I don't think I can ever escape from music.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'