27 Quotes by Stephen Morris

If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.

Nowadays, who actually listens to the tracks on an album, anyway?

I really don't like it when members of bands slag each other off in the press. If you've got a problem, you should sort it out without going public.

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so that one day someone would dig it up, like a time capsule.

You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.

People cross the road to give me their autographs.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band.

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.