Brilliant 22 Selected Quotes By - Bernard Sumner

Brilliant 22 Selected Quotes By - Bernard Sumnere

I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.

— Bernard Sumner

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

— Bernard Sumner

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

— Bernard Sumner

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

— Bernard Sumner

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

— Bernard Sumner

We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.

— Bernard Sumner

The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.

— Bernard Sumner

In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

— Bernard Sumner

Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

— Bernard Sumner

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

— Bernard Sumner

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

— Bernard Sumner

If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.

— Bernard Sumner

I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.

— Bernard Sumner

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

— Bernard Sumner

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

— Bernard Sumner

The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.

— Bernard Sumner

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

— Bernard Sumner

You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

— Bernard Sumner

If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.

— Bernard Sumner

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

— Bernard Sumner

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

— Bernard Sumner

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

— Bernard Sumner

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