Joy Division Quotes

• 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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  Robert Smith

  Ideas   Joy   Division  

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• 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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  Emily Ratajkowski

  Joy   Hearing   Albums  

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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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  Danielle Trussoni

  Dark   Joy   Listening  

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• 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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  DJ Spooky

  Ice   Joy   Mountain  

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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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  Ian Curtis

  Thinking   Play   Joy  

  Source: disordertc.wordpress.com

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• 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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  Ian Curtis

  Past   Hands   Doe  

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• 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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  Moby

  Growing Up   Echoes   Intimate Relationships  

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