Postpunk Quotes

“Now I don't know why, but Morrissey had always hated Joy Division. Maybe Rob got it right when after a lively debate as the cameras were turned off he turned to Morrissey and said, 'The trouble with you, Morrissey, is that you've never had the guts to kill yourself like Ian. You're fucking jealous.' You should have seen his face as he stormed off. I laughed me bollocks off.”
― Peter Hook, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

“Rock & roll isn’t even music really. It’s a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.”
― Mark E. Smith

“Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?'
'Ha, ha, yeah, I do,' I said, 'You're out, arsehole'.”
― Peter Hook, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club