preface: I CANT HELP IT!!!!!!!! THIS IS BEYOND MY CONTROL! wait, isn’t that a line from a u2 song? shit i didn’t even mean that.. no wait maybe it’s not.. lol yeah i think i’m thinking about something else…
time for another installment of bono quotes… maybe u2 quotes in general, we’ll see how far i get before i get tired lol
bono quotes:
“Hope you like it, ’cause you payed for it.”
“Let’s be the band that loves its music and the people that are attracted to its music. And even the ones that aren’t, maybe, as well.”
“I can remember as a child looking in a mirror and thinking, ‘I don’t like that!’ It’s wrong. You’re bombarded with all these images and nobody’s like that. The effect is total disillusionment with yourself. You put on a mask and hide from yourself, from your own soul, from what you’ve got to offer. It’s a reaction away from the individual, and we stand for individualism.”
“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.”
“Now they know why we always look so grim[in photographs]. Cause its [photo shoots] just so (photographer approaches so Bono places his hand over his mouth and whispers to Edge) just so boring! [Edge smiles in agreement][Photographer asks] Are you bored?[Bono replies] No, no. [Edge laughs, Bono tries his best to look serious and innocent…he is not successful]”
i want to say that i hate this quote. but it’s sorta amusing. but i hate it – don’t ask me why. “We make music you can have sex to”
“When you are 16 you think you can take on the world…..and sometimes you are right!”
“Everyone argues then we all do what I say”
“I dance much better horizontally than vertically.” 
“I’ve got a book….I’ve written poems but I don’t know if I’ll publish them. If I do I’ll call it ‘FUCK OFF!! Volume 1’. I get annoyed when people expect me to be a great all-arounder.”
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” (i think someone else said this before bono did…)
“Making records is like making sausages, you’ll probably enjoy them more if you don’t see how they’re done.” ROFL
“You only get disillusioned if you had illusions to begin with.”
“No matter how much we wrap it up in tinsel and television, I’m still the geezer with the white flag.”
“Having gone through the trouble of selling out, you’d expect to at least knock Michael Jackson off the top.” omg i love bono so much
“We’ve made a career out of our personality crises, well, certainly I have.”
“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 dad)
“I remember when he was about 3, only a toddler. He was out in the back garden. He went over to a flower with a bee. He put it on his finger, lifted the bee up, talked to the bee, and put it back again. He probably doesn’t remember it, I don’t think I ever mentioned it, but I can remember to this day the horror of my wife and myself. He could go from flower to flower picking up bees and never got stung. Amazing, isn’t it?” – Bob Hewson
Adam quotes:
“I certainly like looking at the Spice Girls.”
“I don’t know what will happen to Hanson when their voices break.”
“I’ll tell you, you learn alot about women from dressing up in women’s clothes! You learn that when a woman asks you “Do I look alright?” what she’s really saying is “I have just spent alot of time making myself uncomfortable. If I go out in this condition will I look foolish, or is it worth it?”. When you ask a woman to go out to dinner it’s not like sking one of your mates. She has to stop and think, “Hmm, dinner. That will be four hours of being uncomfortable.” And if she says yes and then after four hours you say, “Lets go dancing, let’s go to a club,” and she says “No, I want to go home,” it’s because she has figured on four hours and now those four hours are up and she can only think of getting home and out of those clothes!”
Question: If a Martian landed and was introduced to you and asked you what do you do, what would you say? Adam: I simulate love-making by beating a piece of wood with a metal wire on which it vibrates.”
“There was a brief moment when it(achtung baby)might have been called Adam(laughs).Depending on the photography (laughs again) there might have been a much larger 5th member on the album sleeve” some copies of achtung baby feature a naked adam clayton on the cover
“I think the psychology of the bass player is interesting. If you’ve chosen that instrument you’ve decided in a way that your role is to support, to make everyone else feel confident”
Edge quotes:
“It’s a real drag if you don’t like yourself, ‘cos you do spend a lot of time with yourself.”
“I have a terrible habit of finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I’ll go mow the lawn, or find some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or…paint the cat.”
EDGE: I just want to be respected for who I am.
OBNOXIOUS WOMAN: And who are you, Dave Evans?
EDGE: A Big Rich Famous Rock Star!
“I’m still very nervous about the ‘christian’ label. I have no trouble with christ, but I have trouble with alot of christians.”
“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.”
Larry quotes:
“I invented cool…and you’re on a boat with me.”
“It doesn’t matter what songs we sing. I’m a drummer. Chicks dig me.”
“I look cool….I dunno about the other three….I look cool, I am cool.”
“Well, it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit.”
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“Bono, if you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, look behind the drum kit.” – Boy George
“Bass players get the weirdest fans. I tend to get the bespectacled M.I.T. students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls. We should have gotten a Ringo.” – Edge
