Quotes About Joy Division

#1. Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

Peter Hook

#2. That was the thing about Joy Division: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced; we had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player, a great singer.

Peter Hook

#3. Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Peter Hook

#4. 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.

Moby

#5. The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

Peter Hook

#6. Joy Division throbbed in the background.

David Mitchell

#7. I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.

Anton Corbijn

#8. Take a chance and step outside. Lose some sleep and say you tried. Meet frustration face to face. A point of view creates more waves. - JOY DIVISION (1979)

Jaime Levy

#9. 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

#10. It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.

Peter Hook

#11. 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.

Dylan Moran

#12. In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

Anton Corbijn

#13. New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

Peter Hook

#14. I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

Jamie Blackley

#15. There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

Peter Hook

#16. When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

Peter Hook

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

Emily Ratajkowski

#18. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.

Peter Hook

#19. To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

Peter Hook

#20. 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.

DJ Spooky

#21. I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.

Peter Hook

#22. 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.

Danielle Trussoni

#23. 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.

Peter Hook

#24. I don't think the Cure liked us. I think they resented us in some way, because we'd managed to stay cool, credible, and independent and they'd, well, sort of sold out a bit. The problem was on their side; it wasn't on our side. But I think they thought, Wish we were Joy Division.

Peter Hook

#25. 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.

Peter Hook

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

Kim Gordon

#27. I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's music. It's a great testament to the chemistry and the songwriting prowess between the four original members.

Peter Hook

#28. I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

Peter Hook

#29. There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.

Peter Hook

#30. title from the second album of the introspective beat group Joy Division, Closer

Graham Saunders

#31. I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

Peter Hook

#32. 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.

Robert Smith

#33. 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

Peter Hook

#34. How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

Deborah Curtis

#35. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

R.A. Salvatore

#36. The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.

Deborah Curtis

#37. [Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

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

Deborah Curtis

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

Ian Curtis

#40. There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

Peter Hook