Roots Quotes by Stephen Mallinder

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,…

— Stephen Mallinder

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

— Stephen Mallinder

We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using…

— Stephen Mallinder

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

— Stephen Mallinder

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement…

— Stephen Mallinder

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock…

— Stephen Mallinder

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war…

— Stephen Mallinder

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

— Stephen Mallinder

We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against…

— Stephen Mallinder

Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that…

— Stephen Mallinder

I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction…

— Stephen Mallinder