Quotes About Ian Curtis

#1. Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig.

Kim Gordon

#2. The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

Ariel Pink

#3. A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

Peter Hook

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

Ian Curtis

#5. Lauren woke wedged against Ryder, her back to his front, his arm wrapped around her belly and one strong thigh between hers. If she was looking for space, she had about a hair's width.

Cindy Skaggs

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

Ian Curtis

#7. Never let discouraging people and discouraging situations talk you out of your dream.

Joel Osteen

#8. Ian was living in fairyland and in our own way we all helped him to stay there.

Deborah Curtis

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

Ian Curtis

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

Ian Curtis

#11. 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

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

Ian Curtis

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Honestly, I'm very much a tomboy.

Grace Gealey

#16. Existense, well what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can.

Ian Thomas Curtis

#17. Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high.

Tim Gunn

#18. You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.

William Faulkner

#19. 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

#20. You appreciate something more when it was hard to get.

Keary Taylor

#21. 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

#22. The Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?

Kevin Plank

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

Ian Curtis

#25. I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

Bill Parcells

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

Ian Curtis

#27. 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

#28. I can now see everything falling to pieces before my eyes.

Ian Thomas Curtis

#29. When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

Owen Wister

#30. Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands

E. E. Cummings

#31. 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

#32. All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

John Lennon

#33. Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.

Magnus Flyte

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

Ian Curtis

#35. 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

#36. I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

Clemence Poesy

#37. 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