Peter Hook Quotes

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. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

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

That was the thing about Joy Division: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced; we had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player, a great singer. ~ Peter Hook

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. ~ Peter Hook

Everything up to and including Unknown Pleasures really existed only when the four of us were in a room together playing it. Not written down, not recorded, just from memory. ~ Peter Hook

Ten things you should always do when you form a group

1. Work with your friends
2. Find like-minded people
3. Have ultimate self-belief
4. Write great songs
5. Get a great manager
6. Live in Manchester
7. Support each other through thick and thin
8. Realise no one person is bigger than the group (thanks to Gene Simmons for that one)
9. Watch where the money goes
10. Always get separate legal advice for everything before you sign; failing that, ask your mam and dad ~ Peter Hook

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!! ~ Peter Hook

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

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

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order. ~ Peter Hook

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. ~ Peter Hook

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter. ~ Peter Hook

You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' ~ Peter Hook

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

In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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! ~ Peter Hook

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. ~ Peter Hook

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! ~ Peter Hook

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret! ~ Peter Hook

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. ~ Peter Hook

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. ~ Peter Hook

Atmosphere" is a massive song. A lot of people say it's their favorite Joy Division song, but it's not mine; it reminds me too much of Ian, like it's his death march or something, and it figures that it's one of the most popular songs to play at funerals: Robbie Williams has got "Angels" for weddings and we've got "Atmosphere" for funerals. ~ Peter Hook

I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape ... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming. ~ Peter Hook

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

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?'
'Ha, ha, yeah, I do,' I said, 'You're out, arsehole'. ~ Peter Hook

I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music. ~ Peter Hook

Now I don't know why, but Morrissey had always hated Joy Division. Maybe Rob got it right when after a lively debate as the cameras were turned off he turned to Morrissey and said, 'The trouble with you, Morrissey, is that you've never had the guts to kill yourself like Ian. You're fucking jealous.' You should have seen his face as he stormed off. I laughed me bollocks off. ~ Peter Hook

Can barely look in the mirror. I've been way too uncomfortable to try and shave and I've grown a thin, scraggy ginger beard which looks redder and thicker than it is, cause of the spots on my face. The yellowheads are repulsive enough, but it's two big boil-like fuckers on my cheek and forehead that cause the distress. They throb under the surface of my skin like a Peter Hook bassline, hurting my face every time I try to move it. ~ Irvine Welsh

It was only after we recorded Unknown Pleasures that I could hear and begin to take notice of the words, and it was quite startling then to see how they changed between that album, where they were still quite detached and aggressive, to Closer, which is even darker and not detached at all but really introspective and quite frightening - especially of course when you listen to it in light of what later happened. ~ Peter Hook

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. ~ Peter Hook

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

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. ~ Peter Hook

Accept what you did do, and live with it. ~ Peter Hook

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

For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. ~ Peter Hook

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

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

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

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

I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize. ~ Peter Hook

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. ~ Peter Hook

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

You can't buy class. ~ Peter Hook

I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head. ~ Peter Hook

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

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

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special. ~ Peter Hook

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could. ~ Peter Hook

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

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music. ~ Peter Hook

I watched John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers play it acoustically at their gig at the MEN Arena. I think I can safely say that, of the 19,000 people there, 18,950 didn't know what it was - but I did, and it brought a tear to my eye, definitely. Monster bass line. A bass line that every bass player dreams of and I got it, so thank you. ~ Peter Hook

I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. ~ Peter Hook

When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music! ~ Peter Hook

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. ~ Peter De Vries

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations ... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ~ Peter Drucker

Everybody has a product to sell - no matter whether you're an employee, a founder, or an investor. It's true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don't see any salespeople, you're the salesperson. ~ Peter Thiel

Crime doesn't take a holiday. It changes costume for the season, and Christmas is the season for domestic violence. Too much pressure to deliver the perfect gift, and not enough money. Too little to say, and too much alcohol encouraging confessions. Never enough love or imagination to deliver the dream. ~ Peter Kirby

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. ~ Peter Drucker

The constant back and forth between the poles of the android id and the human ego gave rise to the soul drama of the mid-Modern Age, which was simultaneously a technical drama. Its topic is best summarized in a theory of convergence, where the android moves towards its animation while increasing parts of real human existence are demystified as higher forms of mechanics. The uncanny (which Freud knew something about) and the disappointing (on which he chose to remain silent) move towards each other. The ensoulment of the machine is strictly proportional to the desoulment of humans. ~ Peter Sloterdijk

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Love nothing so much you cannot leave it at the bargaining table. ~ Peter V. Brett

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy. ~ Peter Drucker

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day. ~ Peter Uihlein

We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then. ~ Peter Criss

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. ~ Peter Canisius

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back. ~ Peter Noone

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy. ~ Peter Baynham

In conjunction with his colleagues, Frantisek Baluska from the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany at the University of Bonn is of the opinion that brain-like structures can be found at root tips. In addition to signaling pathways, there are also numerous systems and molecules similar to those found in animals. When a root feels its way forward in the ground, it is aware of stimuli. The researchers measured electrical signals that led to changes in behavior after they were processed in a "transition zone." If the root encounters toxic substances, impenetrable stones, or saturated soil, it analyzes the situation and transmits the necessary adjustments to the growing tip. The root tip changes direction as a result of this communication and steers the growing root around the critical areas.

Right now, the majority of plant researchers are skeptical about whether such behavior points to a repository for intelligence, the faculty of memory, and emotions. Among other things, they get worked up about carrying over findings in similar situations with animals and, at the end of the day, about how this threatens to blur the boundary between plants and animals. And so what? What would be so awful about that? The distinction between plant and animal is, after all, arbitrary and depends on the way an organism feeds itself: the former photosynthesizes and the latter eats other living beings. Finally, the only other big difference is in the amount of time it takes to proce ~ Peter Wohlleben

Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity. ~ Peter Kay

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. ~ Peter Kreeft

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end. ~ Peter Singer

Wilson-Donovan wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible to clinical trials on patients, which was why it was so important to test Vicotec's safety now before the FDA hearings in September, which would hopefully put it on the "Fast Track." Peter was absolutely sure that the testing being concluded by Paul-Louis Suchard, the head of the laboratory in Paris, would only confirm the good news he had just been given in Geneva. ~ Danielle Steel

I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was. ~ Butterfly Boucher