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U2ey Quotes!
Bono (rt.) with his Father, Bob Hewson (lt.) These are some of our favourite quotes by and about U2. To add a quote or to read more quotes, go HERE.
"We've hit a rich songwriting vein and we don't want to stop," Bono wrote on U2.com yesterday, adding the band has penned 50 to 60 songs on the project. "If it was just up to me they'd be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year." - Bono, 2008
"Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff." - Bono: From; Bono In Conversation with Michka Assayas 2005; pg. 204
"You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world." - Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, addressing Bono, November 1999
"I think Bono's approach to lyrics and what he actually says is very real and very valuable and a lot more worthwhile than all these schlocky cliche-ridden lyrics that you get from a lot of bands." - Adam, 1992
"We invite people to bootleg our shows. We invite people to make copies, we've no problems with that, but if some guy is gonna make money off the back of this, we're gonna find out where he parks his car." - Bono
"I'm not particularly interested in big Hollywood movies. Some of them are good, but usually, they're in an emotional and creative terrain that is not much to do with what turns me on as an artist." - Adam, 1996
"I'm as honest as I can be in talking about songs, but I'm really honest when I'm singing them." - Bono, 2000
"In Ireland everyone treats us for what we are. Human beings, musicians and Irish. I speak for the others when I say we are proud to be Irish." - Bono
"We have always been ideologues. We were in the back of the bus reading Bibles instead of Playboy when we were 19 or 20." -Bono, 2000
"On stage I look exuberant because I feel exuberant. I don't pretend. U2 never pretend." - Bono, 1980
"We do make, and will continue to make, soul music. Not soul music with black singers - soul music is not about the instruments you play. Soul music is when you reveal, rather than conceal." - Bono, 1983
"The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know." - Bono, 2002
" No, no, no, I don't believe that. I do think God gets a laugh out of using some very poor materials. I volunteered is what I'm telling you."---Bono to Q Magazine; answering whether he thought he was chosen by God.
"Why should fame change us? We are just ordinary guys. I have toured all over the world with the band. But, I always want to come home to Dublin." - Bono
"One day, a guy came to my house and said: 'I'm the angel of death.' My wife didn't let that confuse her. She said: 'How nice. Can you come back in, say, 40 years?' " - Bono
"When we named it, I always knew it would be number one at something." �?Edge on hearing that One had been chosen as the greatest song ever recorded.
"Actually '78 was a really exciting time for U2. We had just discovered F sharp minor. So we had the fourth chord and we'd only had three up to then." - Bono
"I am a tired old rock star in platform shoes." - Bono as MacPhisto
"Most interesting question asked recently by a fan?"
Bono : "Have you seen Bono?" 'Propaganda' Issue 27, '97
"Everyone argues then we all do what I say" ~ Bono
"It's a tribal thing. My girlfriend had a tattoo for years. People getting tattoos with all sort of designs but original tattoos are an art form. And if it's treated as an art form and if you get something tattooed that means something to you there is something really special about it. I won't get any more tattoos on my body. I didn't get it because I'm a rock-star." - Larry
"The Edge is a really, really intense guy, he's got this incredibly high IQ, he's great at sorting out issues of worldly importance, it's just that he forgets the everyday things, like the chords of songs, where he is and so on."~ Bono
"The house functions better without him I think! You have no idea what he's like. He hasn't changed. He's still the same as he always was. He's cute in his own way. It's the old story." - Bob Hewson (Bono's Father)
"Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you're eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before." ~ The Edge
"My position is that I write songs, I'm in a band and I just hope that when it's all over for U2, that in some way we made the light a bit brighter. Maybe just tear off a corner of the darkness." - Bono
"I love to paint but I think it might just be the fumes." ~ Bono
"Frisbetarians believe that when they die their soul goes up on the roof and they can't get it down." ~ Bono
"Music can change the world because it can change people." ~ Bono
"Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job." - Larry describes Bono's persona, April 1987.
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