Peter Hook Quotes

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

Chickenfoot is phenomenal. I can't believe the music we're making.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.

Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.