Record Play Pause Quotes

“I was and I am very clever and I’m very arrogant. Put the two together and you become a very unpleasant person unless you behave like an idiot. Like an idiot, rather like Shakespeare’s fools, who are the idiots in the play and are always very stupid and stuff. But at the same time they are the only ones who have read the play. From the very beginning of the play they always know exactly what’s going on. They’re always the cleverest. But to avoid being persecuted for that cleverness you behave like an idiot. It’s like being in the bath with you now. It makes me appear less awful and arrogant and elitist and extremist than I am.”
― Stephen Morris, Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I

“Joy Division would turn into such a perfect story. It's perfect because Joy Division and lan in particular would never age. His words are there forever. He'll never let you down.”
― stephen morris, Record Play Pause

“Joy Division changed my life... the songs we wrote together, the records we made in that all too brief span of time. That something we created has resonated with so many people over the years goes so far beyond anything I could ever have hoped to achieve.
Joy Division would turn into such a perfect story. It's perfect because Joy Division and lan in particular would never age, would never go on to make all the mistakes that bands make eventually (we'd made all those earlier on anyway). We'd never make that so-so third or fourth album. Ian would never become a 'celebrity. His words are there forever. He'll never let you down.”
― Stephen Morris, Record Play Pause