Mark Fisher Quotes

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

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.

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I like stuff like Joy Division and Verdi, and then some naff stuff.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this bad boy attitude and a softer, more emotional idea.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.