U2 Quotes
34 quotes by 25 authors
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving…
— Bono
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
— Bono
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
— Bono
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
— Bono
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
— Bono
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot…
— Bono
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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in…
— Bono
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say…
— Bono
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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a…
— Bono
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop.…
— Bono
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I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.
— Julianne Hough
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
— Iggy Pop
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Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.
— Sharon Osbourne
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As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's…
— Scott Ian
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You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.
— Raphael Saadiq
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
— Van Morrison
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We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic…
— Bonnie Tyler
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
— Caroline Corr
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I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for…
— Angie Everhart
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I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.
— Tom DeLonge
Who Wrote These U2 Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 34 U2 Quotes as follows: