Bernard Sumner > Quotes

“Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like.”
― Bernard Sumner

“When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“Silence descended again and I just thought to myself, There’s got to be more than this. When there’s no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside me.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“Lou Reed never came back to Manchester after that, all because of one bloke with a dodgy haircut and incredible aim.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“I don’t think you miss what you’ve never had.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“It didn’t take me long to realize that once you have the basic major and minor chords under your belt you’ve pretty much got 90 per cent of everything: the rest is all about your imagination, and you definitely can’t buy books on that. Once you’ve got those basic building blocks, you can go on to make something out of them. You don’t need to know how to play ‘Rock Around The Clock’ or ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ to make your own music; just get a few chords together, make up a few scales of your own, and away you go. If it sounds good to you, that’s all that counts.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“In my experience, if you take it easy, appreciate what you're doing and what it provides, it can last a long time. Burn bright or live long, that's the simple choice." "If you're feeling down, music can be a great healer, and if you're feeling up it helps to keep you there.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

“Life shapes you, and what life does to you shapes your art.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me