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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
David Howell Evans U2 -
It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.
David Howell Evans U2 -
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
David Howell Evans U2 -
Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.
Bono U2 -
Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.
David Howell Evans U2 -
U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.
David Howell Evans U2 -
If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.
Bono U2
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The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
Bono U2 -
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
Bono U2 -
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
Bono U2 -
We won't let each other fail.
Adam Clayton U2 -
The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.
Bono U2
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
David Howell Evans U2 -
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono U2 -
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
Bono U2 -
Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.
David Howell Evans U2 -
Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
Bono U2
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
Bono U2 -
These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
Bono U2 -
Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
Bono U2