Bernard Sumner Quotes

Bernard Sumner

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 4, 1956

I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.

Bernard Sumner

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

Bernard Sumner

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.

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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

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One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

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

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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.

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I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.

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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

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I never met Morrissey.

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It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

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I entered music at a poppy level.

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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

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The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.

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Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

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I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

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