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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:
 
:bono: He is a big mouth, and I find him a bit of a pain in the arse at times... But I can't help it: I am him! :D

BP: IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE? :adam: A giraffe. Why? 'Cos then you'd meet other giraffes! :cute:

:edge: I have a terrible habit of
finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I'll go mow the lawn, or find
some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or...paint the cat. :lmao:

:larry: It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer, chicks dig me. (true, true!! :yes:)
 
I love the one when Bono says "When you're 16 you think you can take on the world - sometimes you're right" !!!! :lmao:
 
"He's the perfect rock and roll baby. He sleeps blissfully all day and roars all night. Ali is a saint; I try to do my bit, but I don't have the right breasts." Bono, about Elijah

"I would certainly consider myself to be one of the inventors of the mullet.
I think it comes down to Patrick Swayze or me."
- Bono

"You work in a knicker factory! Lingerie!
That's ok, in Sweden we don't wear underpants"
- Bono, June 11/92, Stockholm Sweden

The penis-ring I felt was enough.
It's a lot of weight for one man to carry.
No, I'm a virgin in that sense.
-Bono, when asked by Max magazine if he had a tattoo.

GQ: How about those skin-tight chequerboard trousers you used to wear?
Bono: Unforgiveable. Forget The Unforgettable Fire, what about
the Unforgivable Trousers?
 
BP: Do you believe in flying saucers?
BONO: In my kitchen they're an everyday thing.
BP: Have you ever seen one?
BONO: She's a good shot.

Ali, my missus says "We are not 50,000 people...SHUT UP!" - Bono on Radio 1
 
I love quotes! I've got some Larry ones to add :D:

From a broadcast in Chicago:
"What are you interested in?"
caller: "Music!"
Larry: "We've got very little interest in that. We're into lots of other things."

In an MTV interview during ZOOTV time:
Kurt Loder: "Surely there's more to it than that."
Larry: "Don't call me Shirley."

"You haven't changed your haircut in 10 years!" - Bono to Larry

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

"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 specially love the last one! :lmao:
 
"Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials."
Edge on ZooTV's inspiration, 1992

"What ever you do, do not get into a car with Bono. He's not great at the old driving."
Edge on the dangers of a ride with Bono, 2001

"We would have broken up years ago if there'd been any pansies in the band."
Edge, 2002

For me, that term "pop" is like a candy bar.
You buy it because you like it, you eat it, and then you throw it away.
It has no long-term meaning or value.
Edge - 1985

My room overlooks the park and yesterday during the afternoon I'd opened up all the blinds and taken back the curtains so I could look out over the park. Come nightfall, I was grooving to some rap record in my room, bopping around the room for maybe half an hour. I don't know what I was doing, just messing around...and at one stage I looked out of the window and there were about 200 people looking up, clapping, applauding my dancing. That was funny." The Edge


"If you are a really close friend of The Edge's, you can just say The" - Adam
 
Edgette said:


My room overlooks the park and yesterday during the afternoon I'd opened up all the blinds and taken back the curtains so I could look out over the park. Come nightfall, I was grooving to some rap record in my room, bopping around the room for maybe half an hour. I don't know what I was doing, just messing around...and at one stage I looked out of the window and there were about 200 people looking up, clapping, applauding my dancing. That was funny." The Edge
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:giggle:
I would've liked to see that :drool:
When is this quote from?

Edgette said:


"If you are a really close friend of The Edge's, you can just say The" - Adam
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:lmao:
 
-"Phew, the roof for the house in the west of Ireland is looking good. I'll be able to change the car this year after all!"-Edge after they finished recording the song "One"

-"'It's obviously being played for a joke,' Larry says, 'and I don't feel right about it.' Edge reaches over and grabs Larry's arm and says, 'It's true, he doesn't feel right.'"
 
VicksSs said:
I love quotes! I've got some Larry ones to add :D:

From a broadcast in Chicago:
"What are you interested in?"
caller: "Music!"
Larry: "We've got very little interest in that. We're into lots of other things."

In an MTV interview during ZOOTV time:
Kurt Loder: "Surely there's more to it than that."
Larry: "Don't call me Shirley."

"You haven't changed your haircut in 10 years!" - Bono to Larry

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

"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
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All of these are bloody hilarous :lmao: , the Edge and Bono ones are great too :lmao:
 
"Adam pretended he could play and used words like 'gig' and talked about things like 'action' on the bass and we thought 'this is a guy who can play!' He was a liar. He actually couldn't play a note. Dave was just playing away on the acoustic and people just kept on coming up and saying 'there's something wrong' and we couldn't figure out what it was until suddenly we thought - It's Adam! Adam can't play. He had his own distinctive style from the start - at first it was called BLUFF, but then it began to work."
Bono describing Adam's early musical ability, October 1979.


"We've been trying to work out how to get all the Achtung Baby sounds live. Basically we can do it if Edge plays something different with every one of his appendages."
Bono pushes Edge to the limit, January 1992.:drool: :drool: :drool:
 
Larry on Passengers:

"We have opposing views on Passengers. In my opinion, it's alot of very, very, very bad self-indulgent music"

"I love the Passengers record. I think it's a real grower".
 
ADAM: Elvis is alive.
BP: Have you ever seen him?
ADAM: I see him every day.
BP: Is he in the band?
ADAM: He thinks he is.
 
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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must be from his sarong days!
 
"The first night Edge was in a cloud of dry ice when he got out of the lemon and I couldn't see him,
but I knew he wasn't playing his guitar when he should have been.
And I didn't know what to do exactly.
And then I just heard this giggling. He was laughing his head off. I caught him through the fog.
There is just a smidgen of (Spinal Tap's) Derek Smalls about him at the moment.
But listen, that's balls. Brazen hussies we are.
There's not another rock band in the world -- maybe because they're too smart to --
who would dare to do that. And I'm telling ya, that's it for me."
(Bono, on stage effects & Pop)


BP: Do you ever wish you were Bono / Larry / Adam?
EDGE: Sometimes being Larry would be great, but I suppose if I was I'd
probably have a bank of f*cking echo machines, playing drums
through them, so I don't think anything would be different.


BP: What's the best thing about you?
EDGE: I don't snore.


"Admit it -- You got a stiffy."
(To Bono after Bono tried explaining an experience with a masseuse. -
U2 At The End Of The World : Bill Flanagan)
 
"It's a terrible cliche," he apologises, "but they are the most important
thing in my life. More than any album. They're where it's at"
-Edge, about wife Morleigh and his children, 2001

"I think my moustache actually was the thing that caught me in the 'Leather man' gear.
After that it was every man for himself."
- Edge, on how they chose outfits for the "Discotheque" video

"Wow. Well on a personal level this century has been going so well for us, we finished our album,
I had a little baby boy a little while ago, the whole Jubilee 2000 work has been incredible,
just everything has been going great. There's also been some great breakthroughs in science, the disposible mobile phone, 3 blade razor and the female orgasmatron which is great - anyway now this . . . thanks everybody our record company has been great, our management have been great and our producer's amazing."
- Edge at the Grammys in 2001
 
Edgette said:

"Wow. Well on a personal level this century has been going so well for us, we finished our album,
I had a little baby boy a little while ago, the whole Jubilee 2000 work has been incredible,
just everything has been going great. There's also been some great breakthroughs in science, the disposible mobile phone, 3 blade razor and the female orgasmatron which is great - anyway now this . . . thanks everybody our record company has been great, our management have been great and our producer's amazing."
- Edge at the Grammys in 2001
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:laugh: I still can't believe he got away with that one. He was so :cute: up on stage talking.
 
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