I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image