Larry quotes!!!!

[Kiki]

Post your favorite quotes about or by Larry!!!


This is one of mine, it always has been too.

"I cant even say the bloody word. AcH-TUng Baybe"

~Larry Mullen Junior

 

[zuropa_fit]

From R&H:
My own congas... my very own congas.

It's a musical journey!!!!! LOL every time.

If I had a head like yours, I'd bury it. (to Bono)

 

[MullenGirl]

"It's a musical journey!" - my absolute fav

"I don't think the lyrics are worth a shit to be honest if you ask me, I think it's all about drums."

Kurt Loder: "Surely there's more to it than that."
Larry: "Don't call me Shirley."

"I'm a porn star! Electrical porn! It's like the guys have been wondering for years what to give me for my birthday, so that was an early birthday present." - about the Electrical Storm video

 

[Babydoll]

^

 

[msdw59]

"There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band."
Larry on the beginnings of U2, 1986.

"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.

"They're coming to a rock and roll concert and watching television. That says it all."
Larry on the ZooTV experience, 1992.

"We're doing the same thing, it's just the wrapping is different."
Larry on the trappings of the Popmart tour in 1997.

"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 pleads poverty, 1997.

"There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record."
Larry on his well known dislike of Passengers

"And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile."
Larry highlights the Sarajevo Popmart show as the best ever U2 concert

"I joined a band to hit things."
Larry's reason for being in U2

 

[Kiki]

"I'm a porn star! Electrical porn! It's like the guys have been wondering for years what to give me for my birthday, so that was an early birthday present." - about the Electrical Storm video

omg now I have to go and watch that video again!!!!! I have no idea what he's talking about--or no recollection!

 

[Kiki]

"I joined a band to hit things."
Larry's reason for being in U2

I think thats my new favorite quote from him!

 

[msdw59]

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's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

 

[msdw59]

On forming U2
"I was the guy who borrowed the guitar for the first rehearsal. I borrowed the guitar for the first gig as well. I was in charge, I was the leader of this band for two days. Two days was all I lasted."

"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."


On being a drummer
"It's a mad thing we do. There's nothing natural about it. I mean, I hit things for a living. I hit things and people clap!" (2001)

"I didn't join a band to be famous. I joined a band to hit things." (2002)

"The lyrics don't mean shit to be honest, in my opinion. It's all about the drums" (1992)


On being a popstar
"You begin to feel like a fish bowl. You get some girls who just stare, never come near, never speak. Weird." (1987)

"I have nightmares of my kids saying, Did you really look like that? Did you really make that shit? I want to make good enough records for them to be able to say I'm OK." (2001)

"I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool." (1997)


On religion
"I am a Christian and not ashamed of that. But trying to explain my beliefs, our beliefs, takes away from it. I have more in common with somebody who doesn't believe at all than I do with most Christians. I don't mind saying that." (1987)

 

[absintheminded]

On an admiring fan screaming into their limo, "I LOVE YOU!!!"

Larry, "You don't KNOW me."

 

[europop2005]

"There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band. It was that or whoring ourselves to death"

"I was the guy who borrowed the guitar for the first rehearsal. I borrowed the guitar for the first gig as well. I was in charge, I was the leader of this band for two days. Two days was all I lasted."

"You begin to feel like a fish bowl. You get some girls who just stare, never come near, never speak. Weird."

"I have nightmares of my kids saying, Did you really look like that? Did you really make that shit? I want to make good enough records for them to be able to say I'm OK."

"I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool."

 

[ALass4Larry]

"U2 won't break up over creative differences...We'll break up over someone squeezing the toothpaste from the wrong end of the tube"
Larry: U2 by U2

 

[yupi9999]

From that VH-1 Legends show a few years back.

(narration) In late 1978, a personal tragedy shook U2. Larry's mother Maureen was killed in a car accident and Larry was heartbroken. He tried to withdraw from his friends and from U2, but Bono wouldn't let him.

"He came around to my house and just said, "Look, I understand what's going on, because it happened to me, and maybe I can help you. And that was --you know, and he, he basically forced me to be in the band. When I say that, I mean, he, he wouldn't let me go. And uh, during the early years, being on the road, I mean, I was eighteen and nineteen, and I was scared, you know? I really was scared. I-I knew nothing about what I was entering, I had no idea. And, and I don't think he did either, but he was just a lot more streetwise than I was. and at times it just got really hard and he was always there, he was always around, always just -- he wouldn't even have to say anything, just, I knew that he knew, he knew what was going on, and he understood what was going on. It's been a long relationship and it's based on very deep things, and Bono's probably the only person in the world who could really hurt me, and I would be able to stand back and go, It's fine, it's okay, I could deal with it."

 

[MullenGirl]

From that VH-1 Legends show a few years back.

(narration) In late 1978, a personal tragedy shook U2. Larry's mother Maureen was killed in a car accident and Larry was heartbroken. He tried to withdraw from his friends and from U2, but Bono wouldn't let him.

"He came around to my house and just said, "Look, I understand what's going on, because it happened to me, and maybe I can help you. And that was --you know, and he, he basically forced me to be in the band. When I say that, I mean, he, he wouldn't let me go. And uh, during the early years, being on the road, I mean, I was eighteen and nineteen, and I was scared, you know? I really was scared. I-I knew nothing about what I was entering, I had no idea. And, and I don't think he did either, but he was just a lot more streetwise than I was. and at times it just got really hard and he was always there, he was always around, always just -- he wouldn't even have to say anything, just, I knew that he knew, he knew what was going on, and he understood what was going on. It's been a long relationship and it's based on very deep things, and Bono's probably the only person in the world who could really hurt me, and I would be able to stand back and go, It's fine, it's okay, I could deal with it."

Such a touching story! This is one of the many reasons why I love these boys. They're so united and support each other so much.

 

[Mephy]

"All respect to the Beastie Boys, but when they were fighting for the right to party, we were fighting for the rights of Human Rights prisoners"