Joy Division

"Punk enabled you to say 'Fuck You.' But somehow they couldn't go any further. It was just a single venomous one syllable, two syllable phrase of anger, which was necessary to reignite rock and roll. But sooner or later someone was going to want to say more than 'Fuck You.' Someone was going to want to say 'I'm Fucked.' It was Joy Division who were the first band to do that; to use the simplicity and energy of Punk to express more complex emotions."

- Joy Division documentary 

"We wrote 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in 3 hours. We found the riff one night, and Ian went 'I've got an idea for that.' We thought 'Ian's done it again.'"

- Peter Hook [born 1956]