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MOSTLY LARRY'S: (I'll apologise in advance if any of these are already posted -- I've got a pretty bad memory :) )

BP: What do you do if you have the blues?
LARRY: Sing.
BP: What gives you the blues?
LARRY: Singing.


" My earliest memory of Larry was when we were starting off.
We were at our first rehearsal in his kitchen and all these girls kept climbing over the walls and looking in the window at Larry. Larry just shouted at them "Get out!" And then turned the hose on them! Larry likes to play drums."
- Bono


"The truth is, Bono is always broke, while Larry still has his First Communion money."
-Paul McGuiness


"Larry's always been noticed cos he's the pretty one." -Adam


"A good reason to do Passengers - get Larry to move out of the left side of his brainfor a minute.....Get him intosome artsy stuff." - Bono


"Larry just doesnt like it (Passengers) cause we hardly let him play the drums." - Bono
 
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"Bass players get the wierdest 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


"So basically your criticism is : too much bass, too many words, not enough drums."- Edge


Q magazine, 2001:
Q: What irritates the others about you?
Bono: My temper.
Adam: I'm slow.
Edge: I spend too long on the computer
Larry: I'm the "negative" one.


"Larry looked like some kind of porn star, Edge looked like his sister Jill;
I looked like Barbara Bush and Adam hasn't taken the dress OFF."
- Bono, on dressing up in drag for the 'One' video


What do you do when female fans get too agressive?
Adam: We let Larry deal with those things.


"Well, it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit." - Larry


BP: Do you ever wish you were Edge / Bono / Adam?
LARRY: Sometimes I wish I was as gifted as Edge on his guitar
or Bono on his lyrics or Adam is on other things.


"I'm a cynic about all that lovey-dovey stuff. A marriage is a partnership and you better look at it that way or you're in trouble!
All that lovey-dovey business gets in the way.
How's she gonna feel about him in a couple of years when he's pickin' his nose? Or when he's pickin' her nose?" - Larry
 
"It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific."
- Larry 1997


"Do you know, one of Hitler's first military acts was to
carpet bomb his village of his birth? He was obsessed by obliterating his past."
-Larry, Q magazine
"We should do that to the Q photo library. Destroy all evidence of mullets!"
-Edge, in response.


MOSTLY ADAM'S

"I simulate love-making by beating a piece of wood with a metal wire on which it vibrates"
-Adam Clayton, on what he does for a living.


"There are four members of U2. If there is a fifth, non-musical member it is Paul McGuiness.
Either that or Adam's willie!" - Bono


"Adam was just getting people to do him up in the back and swapping makeup tips with any girl that passed. You know suddenly he could own up to being interested in their underwear!"
Bono, regarding the making of the One video


"All the women are gorgeous and all the men are gay.
If you can't pull tonight, you're hopeless."
-Adam, on the set of the One video
 
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I'd love to wear women's underwear if the sizes were right but they don't really support you, you just tend to flop one way or the other."
- Adam


"At school he stuck out like a sore thumb.
He used to drink coffee in class and the teachers got used to it.
He wore a kilt. He also took off his clothes at one rehearsal when he got very excited."
- Bono, on Adam


In the early days our ambition was just to end the song together!"
- Adam


Q: What do you do with the money you would have spent on drink?
Adam: I buy socks. I'm the kind of rich that likes a familiar pair of socks.
You know, when you're on that party trip socks and underwear are hard to keep together.


"Today we're going to do something perfectly healthy," Adam announces
in his curiously posh drawl, unfolding his deckchair and removing his T-shirt.
"We're going to watch other people exercise."
- Adam


"I wasn't destined for greatness in any other area.
I'd have ended up being some kind of bad landscape gardener
or something. So I much prefer this."
- Adam


"I don't know what will happen to Hanson when their voices break."


"A few hours before the Phoenix show, Marion Smyth, the band's makeup and costume person, was walking by the pool when Adam asked, "Marion, what am I wearing tonight?"
To no one's suprise, Marion answered, "Black."
Abhorring what Bono calls "pop colors," U2 in concert slides along the gray scale.
Offstage Adam will wear turqouise shirts.
Shading his eyes, Adam looked up and asked, "what particular color of black?"

"Black black," said Marion.

Adam nodded and smiled. "A very nice shade indeed.""
- Adam
 
MOSTLY EDGE'S

"A woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle,
And I guess I'm always going to need the Edge!"
-Bono, Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World, Stockholm, 1992


"When we talk about rock'n'roll, we're not gonna suddenly turn
into Bon Jovi. We never meant that."
-The Edge


I'm not sure if Irish people can dance.... except for The Edge, that is, who is our own funky chicken."
-Bono


"As procrastinators, we're very talented."
-Edge in 1992


"As usual, we're out of step with what everyone else is doing.
If you ever want to find out what's going on, look at what we're
doing and it's going to be the opposite of it. In the middle of the
materialistic '80s, here was this ascetic bunch standing in the desert singing songs, and now, when America is in the middle of a conservative, grim phase, we're sailing on a 40-foot lemon through the middle of it all."
-Edge


It's a very unusual thing to be in a band like this. It's like being in a street gang.
And it's all very well being in a street gang when you're 16, but it's bloody weird when you're 32. - Edge
 
"They were all quite serious about music. They would come here every morning about ten and really work very hard.
I used to make them lunch. I was amazed that they took it so seriously."
- Gwenda Evans, Edge's Mom


His [Edge's] gaze drifts off into the air, mentally subdividing God-knows-what complex equation. It turns out he's wondering if right now Larry is finding the fan letter Edge left lying conspicuously in the dressing room. The letter tells Edge that he is "the best-looking member of U2. Bono has a big nose and Larry looks like an inflatable doll." Edge got the note in Australia and he plans to keep leaving it out until Larry notices it. "Bass players attract the weirdest fans," Edge says. "I tend to get the bespectacled MIT students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls." Edge sighs and repeats the old saw: "We should have gotten a Ringo." The Beautiful Boy himself enters the cafeteria, showing no signs of having yet seen himself described as inflatable. Edge gets up to collect his mash note for next time............. U2 At the End of the World


QG: The whole PopMart thing felt contrived and camp
Bono: Exactly! And camp doesn't suit this band. WE're not camp
We'd love to be, but we just can't do it. Even Edge with his
fucking gay mustache. It's just not going off.
2001


The Edge exudes a calmness that wound wind up a Zen master.
A game of snap with him could take weeks.


"True to form, Edge's promise of 'just the one' turns out to mean just the one bottle of vodka."
 
MOSTLY BONO'S

"We make music you can have sex to" - Bono


"My strongest trait is curiosity, I'm just lifting stones, you know,
opening doors. Looking out windows, around corners, up skirts."


BP: What would you like to have that you don't?
Bono: Feet. My legs just seem to end.

BP: Have you ever told a lie?
Bono: Everything I say is a lie.

BP: When did you last cry and why?
Bono: I suppose I do everything in extremes - laugh a
lot, cry a lot, fight a lot, make love a lot, eat too
much, drink too much, try too much, cry too much.
Pass the onion..


I want to play the guitar very badly, and I do play the guitar very badly. - Bono


"It costs a fortune to look this trashy" -Bono


"I remember when we started making Boy, I was 19 or 20 and I was still living at home with my father, just the two of us. I would come home, maybe three or four oclock in the morning. I'd be sneaking up the stairs 'casue I didn't want to wake him - he'd be in a bad mood. [But} he'd wake up and say, 'What time is it?' I'd say, 'It's, uh, one.' He'd say, 'How long have ya been working on that record?' and I'd say, 'A week.' He'd say, 'Jeez, have ya not got it right yet?' He has a point!"
- Bono


Interviewer: "Do you consider yourself a good dancer, Bono?"
Bono: "I dance much better horizontally than vertically."


We get our skis on and Bono falls over immediately... (Adam '82)


Excuse me but why have you taken your clothes off, Bono?
"For the same reason," interjected the Edge,
answering on Bono's behalf, "that he's the lead singer. Because he's a rampant sex god with a huge ego."
"And a small willy," added Adam.
 
Everyone argues, then we do what I say.
- Bono, on how the band makes decisions.


"All our songs are about God or women,
and we often get the two mixed up."


"They [U2's parents] weren't always supportive. Like Edges mother, Mrs. Edge we call her, had a little Volkswagen
and she was a really cool lady and she would like put all the gear and all the band in the Volkswagen she'd like pick us up at 4am in the morning to take us home and she was out there so that worked.
But my old man, when I came home at night, would be waiting at the top of the stairs with a machine gun, several knives, you know it was just target practice." -Bono


"Having played God for most of the 80's, I thought it
would be fun to play the Devil. [MacPhitso]"


" 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. "
-Bono


"I have a weakness for belly dancers; they make me wriggle." -Bono
 
"When those people get up at the Grammys and say, 'I thank God,' I always imagine God going, 'Oh, don't- please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that!'"
-Bono at the Grammys 2001


"Actually it's hard to find four people this good-looking who are willing
to write and record and perform together."
- Bono in 2001


"You want to know what POP is about? Have you got a few weeks?"
- Bono


"It is very hard for him to come back home and say, 'Yeah, I'm normal.' He wants to climb on the table at 11 o'clock every night and try to perform! He's wondering where are the 50,000 people. We sort of laugh at it now." -Ali


'Well, Bono is a Jesuit priest. With a mullet hairdo.'
- Bob Geldof


"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."


"That's 1-2-0-2-4-5-6-1-4-1-4, ok...hello, is this the White House?
Hi, could I speak to President George Bush? George isn't available?
But it's our last night...hello...could I leave a message for George?
I was just gonna say I wouldn't be bothering him from now on.
I'm gonna be bothering Bill Clinton now."
-Macphisto


"No matter how much we wrap it up in tinsel and television, I'm still the geezer with the white flag."


"I've learned, for instance, how to listen to Michael Jackson records,
I've figured it out. I just pretend I can't speak English.


Early Friday afternoon, the last day of the week's rehearsals, the band manuvers through a gauntlet of camera-toting fans at the hotel and piles into an old white Cadillac convertible.
Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. takes the wheel.
'They never let Bono drive,' manager Paul McGuiness says with a snicker.
Clayton elaborates: 'We don't let Bono drive because he likes to fly. And he doesn't really acknowledge corners. Larry knows the rules of the road.'"


"Bono just wanted to meet Sisqo because he thought he was one of the few singers in the world who is shorter than he is.
He was wrong by an inch."
-Edge, GQ 2001


"I've had sex. And sex with a woman, too. Also I started
smoking - cigars first and then cigarettes - but I've had to stop because I couldn't hit the notes any more. There are full-voice B flats and B naturals which can be real bastards."
-Bono, on why his voice is deeper, 2001


"I think I just said I was smart there - I'm sorry about that."
-Bono


`I think I completely lost myself at various points and became an utter madman. That US festival thing. I climbed to the very top of the stage, it was like hundreds of feet up, and walked across the top of it on the canvas, and the canvas ripped. God! I can't watch that! I don't know who that person is. I don't know who it is climbing up there.
I'm afraid of heights anyway.'
-Bono
 
Meghan said:
MOSTLY LARRY'S: (I'll apologise in advance if any of these are already posted -- I've got a pretty bad memory :) )

" My earliest memory of Larry was when we were starting off.
We were at our first rehearsal in his kitchen and all these girls kept climbing over the walls and looking in the window at Larry. Larry just shouted at them "Get out!" And then turned the hose on them! Larry likes to play drums."
- Bono


"Larry's always been noticed cos he's the pretty one." -Adam
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those are two of my favorite U2 quotes :lol:
 
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

One of the best threads I´ve seen so far.
Thanks for those excellente quotes from the band.
Keep up the good fun!
 
yay i LOOOVVE this thread!!

some more. sorry if you've already seen them:
"... and then i saw adam, and he just looked so cool. and i said, 'i
want to be in a rock n' roll band with him.'"
-Larry (Achtung Video)

"I can't even say the bloody word- ACTUNG BABY!"
Larry, (Actung Baby movie)

"I don't think the lyrics are worth a shit to be honest.
If you ask me, I think it's all about drums."
(Achtung Baby movie)

"The truth is, Bono is always broke,
while Larry still has his First Communion money."
-Paul McGuiness


this is one clever one by the Edge from "u2 at the end of the world" by Bill Flanagan (sp?)
the Edge told the interviewer that Bono just recently learned how to play the guitar: "Bono has a sort of love-hate relationship with the guitar. I think he feels somewhat inferior, becuase he's only got five fingers, and it's got six strings." hahahah =)
 
Another one from Bill Flanagan's "U2 at the end of the world"

"Adam thought that if they use this [his nude picture] as the sleeve [of achtung baby] they should call the record Man - the logical sequel to their first album, Boy. Edge thinks it might be funnier to go with the mude shot and call the album Adam, in tribute to both their bassist and the first mortal (who was also the first man to get kicked out of his home and into a cruel world)"

hahah that is so funny on many leves. also because when achtung baby first came out, America forced them to censor Adam's manly thing, and they covered it with a leaf! like how Adam is alwyas depicted in books by being covered with a leaf.
ok.
 
beau2ifulday said:
I've read alot of funny ones over the years, so thought a thread would be a good idea to make us laugh!

One that sticks in my mind comes from Adam:

"Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold."

I have more somewhere, but I have to look them up :yes:
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I love that one too!!:lol: :yes:
 
"The truth is, Bono is always broke,
while Larry still has his First Communion money."
-Paul McGuiness

BEST U2 quote ever!

Thanks for posting it.

:laugh: :laugh:
 
My favorite Edge quote ever....

MTV2 Best Of interview:

"Rock and Roll, guitars, bass, drums, voice at high volume, :yes: that's me."


And yes he does a head nod :yes:
 
Nice Thread!!

on Adam...
Bono:"Adam always loved nudity. He's always been that way. He, when we were in school, used to streak down the corridor naked"

M.A.:So he was more of an exhibitionist than you?
"Yeah I know. I remember the first time, we were just teenagers. Ali was talking to him, and she felt some humidity on the side of her leg (laughs), and he was peeing, not on her leg, but near her leg. He'd whip that thing out at any opportunity. He wouldn't want taking a pee to interrupt a good conversation. And he might forget to ask. (laughs)"
 
Mofo said:
Nice Thread!!

on Adam...
Bono:"Adam always loved nudity. He's always been that way. He, when we were in school, used to streak down the corridor naked"

M.A.:So he was more of an exhibitionist than you?
"Yeah I know. I remember the first time, we were just teenagers. Ali was talking to him, and she felt some humidity on the side of her leg (laughs), and he was peeing, not on her leg, but near her leg. He'd whip that thing out at any opportunity. He wouldn't want taking a pee to interrupt a good conversation. And he might forget to ask. (laughs)"
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:lol:
Oh my. Why doesn't he do that now-a-days? :whistle:
 
'U2 is just a cover. We are really a gang of international pen thieves'

Edge - Signing autographs in Anaheim last tour after a girl asked him for her 'Sharpie' back.
 
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