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

• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  

  Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Results
  • Destruction
  • Barriers

• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Sound
  • Gossip
  • Wave

• Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Silence

• People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Humorous

• Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sounds
  • Title
  • Work Together

• 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