U2 Quotes
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It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.
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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
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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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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.