Peter Hook
Musician
1956-02-13
Books by Peter Hook
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Quotes by Peter Hook
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There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
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There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
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It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
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Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
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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.
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
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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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I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
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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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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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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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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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Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
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