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“Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.” quote by The Edge — Download Open image

“Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.”

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Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

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The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each…

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Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

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Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

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If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

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One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

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U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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