Quotes from Bernard Sumner


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    I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

    Time | Good | Writer


    Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

    Walk | Lived | Within


    I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

    Music | Dance | Sound


    I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

    Travel | Lucky | Thousands


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

    Feelings | Images | Rather


    I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.

    Musicians | Blur | Equal


    I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

    Sex | Saw | Terrible


    I never met Morrissey.

    Met


    I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.

    Start | Singing | Ground


    I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

    Learning | Challenge | Learn


    I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

    Order | Enjoyed | Knew


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

    Life | Challenges | Rise


    I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

    Skinny | Bully | Arm


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

    Late | Gone | Far


    I entered music at a poppy level.

    Music | Level | Poppy


    I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.

    Business | Company | Establish


    By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

    Time | Leaving | Industry


    Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

    Mother | Late | Single


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

    Life | View | Sober


    As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

    Childhood | Emotions | Mature


       

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