David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

David Howell Evans

David Howell Evans U2

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