Words matter. These are the best New Order Quotes from famous people such as Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Curt Siodmak, Aneurin Bevan, Dylan Moran, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
I’m sure every time I bring something out that isn’t New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
It’s good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There’s no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
Originally, I didn’t play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little embarrassed or humble or whatever. But people were coming to see me because of New Order, so in the end, I had to realize that if they were using my name on the poster, then maybe I should play some of the music.
In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It’s not much fun for the other guys in the band when I’m playing my synth parts.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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.
I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They’re low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why – these guys are too sad.
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order – older alternative, I guess.
There’s no future for New Order.
The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.
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.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.
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.
There were certain things I couldn’t do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
