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“We sang 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in full voice, in our native language, which was English tinged with sorrow and longing.”

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Book:Every Anxious Wave

Source: Every Anxious Wave

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”

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Book:Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

“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.”

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Book:The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Source: The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

“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”

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Book:Substance: Inside New Order

Source: Substance: Inside New Order

“The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I pulled it out. Covered in old beer and sweat and condensation, it was one of the master tapes of Joy Division's debut album, Unknown Pleasures. It made me smile. It was an absolutely perfect metaphor for the Haçienda. Joy Division had held the whole fucking thing up.”

Joy Division Peter Hook Haçienda

Book:The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Source: The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

“Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.”

Dream Reality Joy Division Ian Curtis

Author:Ian Curtis

“I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.”

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Author:Danielle Trussoni

“It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.”

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Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don't know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“I just want to carry on the way we [ Joy Division] are, I think. Basically, we want to play and enjoy what we like playing. I think when we stop doing that I think, well, that will be the time to pack it in. That'll be the end.”

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Author:Ian Curtis

“When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.”

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Author:Moby

“I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.”

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Author:Robert Smith

“Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.”

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Author:Ian Curtis