Larry Mullen Quotes

#1. It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

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#2. Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!

John Lennon

#3. If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

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#4. I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

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#5. I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

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#6. I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

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#7. I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise ... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

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#8. I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

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#9. 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.

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#10. We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

Narendra Modi

#11. I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

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#12. Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

Clyde Kluckhohn

#13. I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.

Rumi

#14. When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Larry Mullen

#15. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

#16. The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

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#17. Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.

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#18. Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.

Marguerite Duras

#19. Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.

Frederick Buechner

#20. I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

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#21. I joined a band to hit things.

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#22. Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

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#23. Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

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#24. The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

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#25. The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

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#26. You can take from an incomplete man what he knows in his field and by learning from many incomplete men, you can become a complete man

Gustave Norling

#27. People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

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#28. And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile.

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#29. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

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