Ian Curtis Quotes

#1. All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

Ian Curtis

#2. Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

Ian Curtis

#3. Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

Ian Curtis

#4. When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow ... and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

Ian Curtis

#5. 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.

Ian Curtis

#6. I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

Ian Curtis

#7. You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that something so good just can't function no more. When love, love will tear us apart again.

Ian Curtis

#8. I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

Ian Curtis

#9. I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

Ian Curtis

#10. We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again.

Ian Curtis

#11. The things that we've learned are no longer enough.

Ian Curtis

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

Ian Curtis

#13. 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.

Ian Curtis

#14. Love, love will tear us apart, again.

Ian Curtis

#15. We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all.

Ian Curtis

#16. We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

Ian Curtis

#17. I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

Ian Curtis