CatDubh
Refugee
I know I'm hopelessly devoted to Sparky
, but I think Larry is the funniest of all!
"It's a musical journey." (on what Rattle & Hum will be about)
"There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record."
"I look cool... I dunno about the other three... I look cool, I am cool." (Larry 1997)
(Larry scratches his foot during rehearsal
Someone,"LARRY - MULLEN - JUNIOR!" Larry (grins into camera),"I don't have a mic on so you don't know what I'm saying." Edge,"If I had feet like yours, Lawrence, I wouldn't want them in the film." Larry,"If I had a head like yours I'd bleedin' bury it."
(Stepping out of a plane) "Where's my car??"
"I feel like a bleedin' woman!"
"Unlike what some of the other guys were saying I loved the Elvis movies, I really related to that."
"I can't even say the bloody word: Achhhhhhhtung Baby."
"We were four guys from Dublin who didn't have a clue. We were uncool and unhip."
"You've got the album (Rattle and Hum). You've got the film, you can buy the T-shirt and next thing you know you're gonna have the video. It just seemed like we were pushing and pushing and pushing too hard."
"Coming to a rock 'n' roll gig and watching television. What more could you ask for?"
"That (the art side, i.e. the right side) side of my brain is kinda a little redundant."
"I like clarity, straight lines."
"You know there's a thin line between art and art for arts sake - you gotta be careful with that one."
"It (Passengers) was self indulgent. As a soundtrack to a movie, or two movies it makes sense. It made no sense as an album."
"There is a love between the members of this band that is deeper than whatever comes between us. After almost 15 years, which would be time for a divorce in almost any relationship, we looked at each other and said. 'Lay down your arms'."
"People say 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on-stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that important. Everything else is irrelevant."
"I invented cool... and you're on a boat with me."
"F.O.A.D.!" (= F*** off and die.)
"If you look at the cover of The Joshua Tree, you see four very unhappy men... What nobody realizes is that it was -20 out there. We were freezing. Put any .... out there and see if he's happy."
"I'm using all this shit to my advantage. Otherwise I'm going to be looking for a job." (Larry on drum machines)
"Do you want the party line or the truth?" (Larry on why the Popmart tour will kick off in Las Vegas)
"I don't like that record." (about Passangers)
"What do you mean 'lose money in some markets'? We generally lose money in all markets." (Larry on Popmart)
"Well, it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit."
"If a student with an accordion had come along, I would've played with them ya know... that was where I was at, I was that desperate to play with somebody." (about his Mount Temple days, before forming U2)
"And he looked so cool... And I just thought: I wanna to be in a band with HIM!!!" (Larry about Adam Clayton)
"I don't think the lyrics are worth a shit to be honest if you ask me, I think it's all about drums."
"I wish he hadn't been buried in the backgarden, I don't know why, it's just one of those things." (Larry talks about Elvis during a visit to Graceland)
"The day U2 stops fighting is the day that U2 will not be the band it is today."
"Boom then in... 'cause the Edge is on a completely different timing as usual." (Larry in Rattle & Hum, backstage during a gig.)
"It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me." (Larry during an interview when U2 were discussing what songs they were going to sing for Popmart.)
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In the car Bono struggles to get the TV to switch channels but it stays stuck on one of those half-hour self-help commercials. Finally, in exasperation, Bono says, "Edge, you're the scientist, can you get this to work?" Edge leans over and tries to change the station. Each time he does it clicks back to the self-help ad. This is very strange. Edge gets down and fiddles the switches with the furrow-browed dedication of Louis Pasteur at his bunsen burner, as oblivious as Bono to the fact that Larry is sitting with a remote control by his leg, clicking the channel back each time Edge tries to change it.
"Enough of this video bullshit, I'm gonna give you some culture, you know me?" (Larry at a ZooTV concert, before singing a traditional Irish song.)
Kurt Loder: "Surely there's more to it than that." - Larry: "Don't call me Shirley." (during an interview featured on U2 Raw)
"The only good thing about the references (to the Beatles), for me, is that the Beatles, like us, didn't take themselves too seriously."
"Gay clubs are the best places for us to come to. Nobody hassles us, there's not the asshole you find in other clubs who just has to get up and try to start something. They respect us and they're glad to have us. The gay community is always on the cutting edge of music. I'm proud that they like U2 and come to our concerts. They don't see in U2 the macho shit that's beneath so much rock. I have a lot of time for the gay community." (taken from 'U2 at the End of the World', Bill Flanagan, 1995)
"It's a musical journey." (on what Rattle & Hum will be about)
"There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record."
"I look cool... I dunno about the other three... I look cool, I am cool." (Larry 1997)
(Larry scratches his foot during rehearsal
(Stepping out of a plane) "Where's my car??"
"I feel like a bleedin' woman!"
"Unlike what some of the other guys were saying I loved the Elvis movies, I really related to that."
"I can't even say the bloody word: Achhhhhhhtung Baby."
"We were four guys from Dublin who didn't have a clue. We were uncool and unhip."
"You've got the album (Rattle and Hum). You've got the film, you can buy the T-shirt and next thing you know you're gonna have the video. It just seemed like we were pushing and pushing and pushing too hard."
"Coming to a rock 'n' roll gig and watching television. What more could you ask for?"
"That (the art side, i.e. the right side) side of my brain is kinda a little redundant."
"I like clarity, straight lines."
"You know there's a thin line between art and art for arts sake - you gotta be careful with that one."
"It (Passengers) was self indulgent. As a soundtrack to a movie, or two movies it makes sense. It made no sense as an album."
"There is a love between the members of this band that is deeper than whatever comes between us. After almost 15 years, which would be time for a divorce in almost any relationship, we looked at each other and said. 'Lay down your arms'."
"People say 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on-stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that important. Everything else is irrelevant."
"I invented cool... and you're on a boat with me."
"F.O.A.D.!" (= F*** off and die.)
"If you look at the cover of The Joshua Tree, you see four very unhappy men... What nobody realizes is that it was -20 out there. We were freezing. Put any .... out there and see if he's happy."
"I'm using all this shit to my advantage. Otherwise I'm going to be looking for a job." (Larry on drum machines)
"Do you want the party line or the truth?" (Larry on why the Popmart tour will kick off in Las Vegas)
"I don't like that record." (about Passangers)
"What do you mean 'lose money in some markets'? We generally lose money in all markets." (Larry on Popmart)
"Well, it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit."
"If a student with an accordion had come along, I would've played with them ya know... that was where I was at, I was that desperate to play with somebody." (about his Mount Temple days, before forming U2)
"And he looked so cool... And I just thought: I wanna to be in a band with HIM!!!" (Larry about Adam Clayton)
"I don't think the lyrics are worth a shit to be honest if you ask me, I think it's all about drums."
"I wish he hadn't been buried in the backgarden, I don't know why, it's just one of those things." (Larry talks about Elvis during a visit to Graceland)
"The day U2 stops fighting is the day that U2 will not be the band it is today."
"Boom then in... 'cause the Edge is on a completely different timing as usual." (Larry in Rattle & Hum, backstage during a gig.)
"It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me." (Larry during an interview when U2 were discussing what songs they were going to sing for Popmart.)
---
In the car Bono struggles to get the TV to switch channels but it stays stuck on one of those half-hour self-help commercials. Finally, in exasperation, Bono says, "Edge, you're the scientist, can you get this to work?" Edge leans over and tries to change the station. Each time he does it clicks back to the self-help ad. This is very strange. Edge gets down and fiddles the switches with the furrow-browed dedication of Louis Pasteur at his bunsen burner, as oblivious as Bono to the fact that Larry is sitting with a remote control by his leg, clicking the channel back each time Edge tries to change it.
"Enough of this video bullshit, I'm gonna give you some culture, you know me?" (Larry at a ZooTV concert, before singing a traditional Irish song.)
Kurt Loder: "Surely there's more to it than that." - Larry: "Don't call me Shirley." (during an interview featured on U2 Raw)
"The only good thing about the references (to the Beatles), for me, is that the Beatles, like us, didn't take themselves too seriously."
"Gay clubs are the best places for us to come to. Nobody hassles us, there's not the asshole you find in other clubs who just has to get up and try to start something. They respect us and they're glad to have us. The gay community is always on the cutting edge of music. I'm proud that they like U2 and come to our concerts. They don't see in U2 the macho shit that's beneath so much rock. I have a lot of time for the gay community." (taken from 'U2 at the End of the World', Bill Flanagan, 1995)
