oliveu2cm
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Anyone else have "Bono: In His Own Words"? I just bought the latest copy and there are some really great quotes there.. I've been typing some up and wanted to share.
"I print the lyrics on the record sleeves becasue I don't think that as a singer I'm clear enough. There was a fantastic Japanese translation I have to tell you about of a song called "out of control." I think the opening line - it's not great poetry but it was the opening line and I wrote it on my 18th birthday. I think it was "monday morning, 18 years, how long" and the Japanese translation was "Monday morning knitting ears of gold"
"People ask me such serious questions- and I answer them. I'm that dumb."
"I think the world is not ready for a book of my poetry. I wrote a poem about Elvis. I think if you're going to write poetry it should be about Elvis."
"If you're lucky enough to be in love as I am, you don't want to throw it all away and expose your partner: that is much more important to me than being in U2, actually. So when I'm writing songs, it's the leg of my experience, the arm of somebody else's. But I do think that in an oblique way the only place where I am completely honest is in the song."
"Where's my public? My God, they've deserted me! This is a crisis. We'd better do something. Stir up some publicity or something. 'Bono in under-age sex orgy.' That should do it. I want my public Back" -Dec 1987
"I am still learning the trappings of stardom. I punched a security guard over there and it felt prety good. I'm wondering if someone could bring me a bottle of Jack Daniels so I could drink it in front of you." - at a press conference, 1987.
"There's no stage big enough fo rme - i like to stretch the stage, to push it to its limit. I'm always trying to get across- to communicate."
"The biggest hit that you get, is when you're in teh rom. Paying. And the music comes. And you dohn't know where it comes from, and youdon't know where it's going, and that's the moment. And.... that really pays your wages..." Feb 1992
"I'm interested in the menal conflict of a relationship. A lot of our songs are rooted in that. People have said that I'm obsessed with borders and I suppose I am, although it has never been soething conscious. But there can be a lot of different kinds of borders - physical, national, sexual or spiritual, and there are elements of them all in U2 songs." March 1987.
"If I am an icon I think I must be a very bad icon. People mistake the music for the musicians. What's special about U2 is the music, not the musician. I and the others are just ordinary people and our trade is to make music. Somebody else's is to build houses or work in a factory or teach. We're just getting to grips with our trade as songwriters." march 1987.
"I think if there's a difference between the art and the artist there's something up" Nov 1984
"I talk too much. I don't talk too much when I'm with people that I believe in and they believe in me." nov 1984.
"I warn you, I am completely unable to explain myself at times....even to string three words together can be hard, and this can be tragic if people think you supposedly have a gift of the gab. These days I feel like I've got less and less to say. Something's happened that kind of changed my point of view, which is that I've really got interested in this idea of the song.. It's like out of the air, with a guitar or piano and three or four chords, you just say all you have to say and it's incredible. It's just something that never even dawned on me before.. I'm a songwriter, why don't I shut up!" June 1985
"there's as much fear on our records as there is faith." Jan 1985
"I think the music is much better than the musician, but also the audience is as much applauding itself as us. One of the things people forget about these large concerts is that the audience have heard the records, it knows the songs from the radio and the music has become part of their lives. When they hear those songs their own selves are caught up in them and they are in some way applauding the connection" June 1985.
------------------
"You just stretch it out and realise
a whisper can be louder than a scream." ~Bono
*U2TakeMeHigher*
"I print the lyrics on the record sleeves becasue I don't think that as a singer I'm clear enough. There was a fantastic Japanese translation I have to tell you about of a song called "out of control." I think the opening line - it's not great poetry but it was the opening line and I wrote it on my 18th birthday. I think it was "monday morning, 18 years, how long" and the Japanese translation was "Monday morning knitting ears of gold"
"People ask me such serious questions- and I answer them. I'm that dumb."
"I think the world is not ready for a book of my poetry. I wrote a poem about Elvis. I think if you're going to write poetry it should be about Elvis."
"If you're lucky enough to be in love as I am, you don't want to throw it all away and expose your partner: that is much more important to me than being in U2, actually. So when I'm writing songs, it's the leg of my experience, the arm of somebody else's. But I do think that in an oblique way the only place where I am completely honest is in the song."
"Where's my public? My God, they've deserted me! This is a crisis. We'd better do something. Stir up some publicity or something. 'Bono in under-age sex orgy.' That should do it. I want my public Back" -Dec 1987
"I am still learning the trappings of stardom. I punched a security guard over there and it felt prety good. I'm wondering if someone could bring me a bottle of Jack Daniels so I could drink it in front of you." - at a press conference, 1987.
"There's no stage big enough fo rme - i like to stretch the stage, to push it to its limit. I'm always trying to get across- to communicate."
"The biggest hit that you get, is when you're in teh rom. Paying. And the music comes. And you dohn't know where it comes from, and youdon't know where it's going, and that's the moment. And.... that really pays your wages..." Feb 1992
"I'm interested in the menal conflict of a relationship. A lot of our songs are rooted in that. People have said that I'm obsessed with borders and I suppose I am, although it has never been soething conscious. But there can be a lot of different kinds of borders - physical, national, sexual or spiritual, and there are elements of them all in U2 songs." March 1987.
"If I am an icon I think I must be a very bad icon. People mistake the music for the musicians. What's special about U2 is the music, not the musician. I and the others are just ordinary people and our trade is to make music. Somebody else's is to build houses or work in a factory or teach. We're just getting to grips with our trade as songwriters." march 1987.
"I think if there's a difference between the art and the artist there's something up" Nov 1984
"I talk too much. I don't talk too much when I'm with people that I believe in and they believe in me." nov 1984.
"I warn you, I am completely unable to explain myself at times....even to string three words together can be hard, and this can be tragic if people think you supposedly have a gift of the gab. These days I feel like I've got less and less to say. Something's happened that kind of changed my point of view, which is that I've really got interested in this idea of the song.. It's like out of the air, with a guitar or piano and three or four chords, you just say all you have to say and it's incredible. It's just something that never even dawned on me before.. I'm a songwriter, why don't I shut up!" June 1985
"there's as much fear on our records as there is faith." Jan 1985
"I think the music is much better than the musician, but also the audience is as much applauding itself as us. One of the things people forget about these large concerts is that the audience have heard the records, it knows the songs from the radio and the music has become part of their lives. When they hear those songs their own selves are caught up in them and they are in some way applauding the connection" June 1985.
------------------
"You just stretch it out and realise
a whisper can be louder than a scream." ~Bono
*U2TakeMeHigher*