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The daredevil suavity of James Bond on a secretmission. (BP Fallon's description of Larry)
"Larry's always been noticed cos he's the pretty one." -Adam
"Thats what Passengers was....a soundtrack without a movie. Not Larry's favourite U2 album of all time..." - Edge
"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
"Bono, if you still haven't found what you're looking for, look behind the drumkit." - Boy George
"You haven't changed your haircut in 10 years!" - Bono
"Im actually in awe of Larry knowing exactly who he is. I dont know if I'm this or that or what." - Bono
"The funny thing about Larry is that, okay he got into the dress and put on the makeup but he was fighting with it. He wouldn't take off his Doc Martens and whenhe was sitting he'd put his feet up on the table. But as macho as he tried to be he still looked like some extra in a skin flick. That was the irony." - Bono, on making of the One video with the guys in drag
"So basically your criticism is : too much bass, too many words, not enough drums."- Edge
"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
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
Fan named Matt: (As a fellow fan prepares to take a picture of him with Larry)
"You know Larry, I'm a drummer in a band too."
Larry: (Looks at fan and shrugs, smiling pleasantly toward the camera)
"Well, Matt, we all have our problems." (After a PopMart gig)
"You see Larry, you let an outsider taste your food.
I'm not jealous, but if you need someone to eat off your plate you should always go to your bass player. - Adam
"A man so handsome, he will never be let sing in this group!"
-Bono, introducing Larry at Irving Plaza, NYC 2000
BP: Do you ever wish you were Edge / Larry / Adam?
ADAM: Sometimes I wish I was Larry, yeah. Why? I'd like his dog JJ, who's a labrador
"We were four guys from Dublin who didn't have a clue. We were uncool and unhip."
Larry Quotes.2
"Larry is the core of U2. He never does any interviews.
He just gets on with his life the way he always has. He still enjoys
being back home with his mates. "
-Bono, 1987
"A lot of people think the power comes from the guitar, but it's really from Larry's drums."
-Bono, 1982
"It's an amazing place, with its own character.
You can get immaculate drum sound in the hallway,
which is solid stone walls with a really high ceiling.
I set my kit out there, and they put mics all the way down
from the very, very top of the stairwell. I've recorded many songs out there."
Larry describes the acoustics of Windmill Lane Studios
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."
"I'm using all this shit to my advantage. Otherwise I'm going to be looking for a job."
-Larry discussing drum machines
BP Fallon: What is the worst thing about rock n roll Larry Mullen Junior?
Larry: Excess.
BP Fallon: What is the best thing about rock n roll Larry Mullen Junior?
Larry: Excess.
BP Fallon: What is ZOOTV Larry Mullen junior?
Larry: Expensive.
BP Fallon: What is ZOO Radio Larry Mullen junior?
Larry: Cheap.
"The day U2 stops fighting is the day that U2 will not be the band it is today."
BP: What's the best thing about you?
LARRY: My dog.
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.
"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."
"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?"
"What do you mean 'lose money in some markets'?
We generally lose money in all markets."
"The most important thing about the beginning of U2 is that
we were four people before we were four musicians.
When we started out we couldn't play any instruments.
We built the band around the drum kit but when we were on stage we were a shambles.
It was like every night we'd want to break up,
but then every morning we'd wake up and want to start again."
BP: IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE?
Larry: Aaah! A fly. Because Bono wrote about a fly and
what's good enough for Bono is good enough for me.
"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
"Anyway the evening ended quite abrubtly when Larry Mullen's Dad
arrived to take an indignant Larry home. Larry was only 15 at
the time and his Dad felt that school next morning was far more
important than this recording session."
Jackie Hayden, a judge at the Limerick talent contest which U2
won in 1978, recalls the band's first studio experience.
Max Magazine: Let's move to some lighter subjects.
Larry, you finally got a tattoo. Why did you choose this motive.
It's some kind of sun, isn't it?
Larry: Yeah.
MAX: Tell me about it.
Larry: It's a personal thing. I want to have it for a long time but I
don't like needles so eventually I had to drink heavily and went up to
Woodstock and I got it done there. I am planning it for about ten
years, so a bottle of Whisky and off I went.
"One of my favorite memories of Larry is him coming up
against a biker gang in a pub. They were being pretty obnoxious, but
Larry walks up to the biggest guy and says, "Listen," and the guy's like,
"Yeah, what?" and Larry goes, "If you're looking for trouble, I'll find you some."
Because Larry is all about back-up. You wouldn't mess with Larry
because you never know who's around the corner."
-Bono, GQ Magazine, 2001
"I'm so looking forward to playing indoors, to be able to look at people
and see the whites of their eyes."
-Larry, Revolver magazine, 2000