Peter Hook famous quotes

03-26-2025

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.
-- Peter Hook

#Looks #Done #Might
When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.
-- Peter Hook

#Media #World #Digital
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
-- Peter Hook

#Differences #Texas #Scary
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
-- Peter Hook

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Traits
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
-- Peter Hook

#America #Germany #Vinyl
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
-- Peter Hook

#Yeah #Feels #Not Ready
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
-- Peter Hook

#Waiting #Needs
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
-- Peter Hook

#Forever #Facts #Normal
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
-- Peter Hook

#Thinking #People #Festivals
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
-- Peter Hook

#Thinking #Mind #Bears
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
-- Peter Hook

#Would Be #Boring #Bloody
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
-- Peter Hook

#Thinking #Finding The One #Lucky
We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
-- Peter Hook

#Rocks #People #Want
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a ***** - it's like love and hate.
-- Peter Hook

#Hate #Lines #Artistic
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
-- Peter Hook

#Special #Chemistry #Factories
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
-- Peter Hook

#Hate #Ironic #Groups
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
-- Peter Hook

#Nice #Mistake #Laughing

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