U2 Quotes
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I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.
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Bono and Edge can have their heads down trying to complete material and lose perspective, whereas Larry and I can come in with a fresh perspective. It's both a blessing and a curse. Someone who's put in a lot of hours in a tune is reluctant to give up on it and admit it's not making the grade.
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead. I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. I want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.