David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

David Howell Evans U2

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• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Common
  • Through

• I'm a communicator.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Communicator

• I believe that music is God's voice.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Music
  • God
  • Believe

• My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • People
  • Music
  • Parents

• The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Man
  • Movement

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Country
  • Science
  • Control

• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Language
  • Emotion

• Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Job
  • Jobs

• I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Barriers
  • Gates
  • Linkin Park

• The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • World
  • Women
  • Action

• Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Ignorance
  • Tradition
  • Prejudice

• Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

  

  Plato
  • Mind
  • Air
  • Music Is

• Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Music Is

• Life without music is no life at all.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Music Is

• When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Student
  • Mirrors
  • Barriers

• The goal here is to remove all barriers to entry and get developers easy access to our tools.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Goal
  • Barriers
  • Remove

• We are breaking down some of the artificial barriers between e-mail and Web browsing. We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Barriers
  • Artificial
  • Breaking Down

• Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • House
  • Jesus

• But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Act
  • Coerce
  • View Of Truth

• If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Lies
  • Write
  • Humbug

• You know how sometimes you're talking to people who love you and give you unconditional love, and you say, "But you know what? Let me back up. I forgot to say . . ."You can do that, right? You don't hesitate and say, "Oh my God! I forgot to say that!". You just speak! And you say it all, until you have nothing more to say. And that's your first draft. It's done.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Done
  • Giving

• Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Barriers
  • Music Is
  • Communicator