Bernard Sumner Quotes

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

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

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

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

When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.

Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

Big Thief is destined for greatness.

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.

I like Scissor Sisters.

I love the Scissor Sisters.

For people to keep saying, 'We want to see more of this guy, even though the shows have not always been out-of-the-box successes,' is a huge compliment to me.

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.

Many talented actors have come into this industry and, in spite of their best efforts, haven't been able to win over the audience.

I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.

In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.

I was really big in the '80s.