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I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
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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You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.
David Howell Evans U2 -
I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
Bono U2 -
First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.
David Howell Evans U2 -
Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.
Bono U2 -
Performing at this level requires an absolute commitment and dedication. You can't half commit.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.
David Howell Evans U2
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The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
David Howell Evans U2 -
People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Bono U2 -
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
David Howell Evans U2 -
One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.
David Howell Evans U2 -
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 U2
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
Bono U2 -
If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
The biggest misconception about me was that I was some kind of wild, crazy rock'n'roll firework. It was an easy image to pick up on, but I'd like to think I was a little deeper than that.
Adam Clayton U2 -
My name is Bono and I am a rock star.
Bono U2 -
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
David Howell Evans U2 -
Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.
David Howell Evans U2
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For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
David Howell Evans U2 -
We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
Bono U2 -
I think it's hard to come to a U2 show and just eat hot dogs and drink a soda, and not be moved by it.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
David Howell Evans U2