Top 85 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.