Best U2 Quotes

#1. If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Steve Turner

#2. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].

Alicia Keys

#3. No one is blinder than he who will not see.

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#4. I remember hearing about when U2 first came out and came to America and the gay community was their biggest following. And they were totally surprised, but they were like, that's cool. And for me it's the same thing.

Colin Munroe

#5. U2 is an original species ... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Bono

#6. When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.

Paul Oakenfold

#7. It's not where you're born
It's not where you belong
It's not how weak
But what will make you strong
- Summer Rain

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#8. 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

#9. U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

The Edge

#10. You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

Raphael Saadiq

#11. You can dream, so dream out loud.

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#12. 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

#13. 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 it a great big kiss.

Bono

#14. Because he never said it first
he would only ever say 'I love you, too.' And I would hate to think that he was talking about the band U2 the whole time, you know?

Alicia Thompson

#15. You've gotta talk without speaking/
cry without weeping/
scream without raising your voice

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#16. Punk rock party in a suburban home/
everybody's famous here but nobody's known/

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#17. 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

#18. For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

Adam Clayton

#19. And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'." - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

L.A. Kragie

#20. I don't like the name, U2, actually.

Bono

#21. In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Bono

#22. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

Bono

#23. There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

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#24. You know, even U2 took a little time off, and then they came back with a new sound.

Daron Malakian

#25. There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

Ric Ocasek

#26. I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.

Clinton Sparks

#27. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.

Bono

#28. On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

Craig Ferguson

#29. The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

Kelly Jones

#30. U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

Jimmy Chamberlin

#31. Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Bono

#32. U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Bono

#33. In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Caroline Corr

#34. 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 of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

Bono