Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Hook

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Peter Hook is an English musician, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Joy Division and New Order. Hook often used the bass as a lead instrument, playing melodies on the high strings with a signature heavy chorus effect. In New Order, he would do this, leaving the actual basslines to keyboards or sequencers.

English - Musician | Born: February 13, 1956

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To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

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It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.

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That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

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They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

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Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.

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Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

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We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

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'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

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I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

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Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

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

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You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

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The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

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The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

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Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

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Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

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I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

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But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

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The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.

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I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

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When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

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The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

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There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

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When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

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

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Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

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I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

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When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

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There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

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I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

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

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The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

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Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

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I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.

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I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

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I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

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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.

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Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'

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I've never been out of work in my whole life.

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I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.

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The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

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What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

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Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

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At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.

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America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

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I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

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I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.

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It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

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It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

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My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

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We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

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We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

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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.

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You can't buy class.

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And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

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Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

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When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.

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To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.

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