Citas famosas de U2
En “Citas Famosas de U2” vais a encontrar los pensamientos más íntimos de Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton y Larry Mullen Jr. A lo largo de la carrera musical de U2, Bono (en su mayor parte), nos ha ofrecido frases memorables, y estoy convencido de que seguirá haciéndolo en los años venideros.
También es muy interesante conocer lo que opinan de U2 otras personajes famosos. La frase de Frank Sinatra en 1987 es realmente memorable.
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Como diría Bono: “La música puede cambiar el mundo, porque puede cambiar a la gente”
Citas y frases famosas de U2
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Music can change the world because it can change people
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them
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.
The less you know, the more you believe
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt
I went through a sort of awkward phase of thinking I was stupid. My schoolwork goes to shit. I can't concentrate. I started to believe the world outside. Music was my revenge on that.
I'm not exaggerating to say that. This music changed the shape of the room. It changed the shape of the world outside the room; the way you looked out the window and what you were looking at. (listening to John Lennon)
I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action
Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back. Except when I'm with the black church. I feel relaxed, feel at home; my kids.. I can take them there; there's singing, there's music
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will
Music was an alarm bell for me, it woke me up to the world
Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited
Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, the chances are you have become a prick
Africa is bursting into flames while we all stand around with watering cans
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting
I have never tried to write this thing called a song that's played on radios all around the world, that window-cleaners hum, that people listen to in traffic jams. I was never interested in song: U2 came about through a sound
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause (U2 played in war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1993)
I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do
We don't want to murder Sgt. Pepper. (2005) (Refering to the bands duet with Paul McCartney On performing at Live 8)
I have no trouble with Christ, but I have trouble with a lot of Christians
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.
I don't feel that attached to my instruments. It's almost like I'm going to dominate them in some sort of way. I don't feel like they're part of me; they stand between me and something new.
It's a very unusual thing to be in a band like this. It's like being in a street gang. And it's all very well being in a street gang when you're 16, but it's bloody weird when you're 32.
There's four evil motherfuckers in U2. I think we would've broken up years ago if there'd been any pansies in the band. (Looking Back on Achtung Baby sessions, 2002)
I'm not sure if Irish people can dance.... except for The Edge, that is, who is our own funky chicken. (Bono on Edge's dancing)
It's a terrible cliche, but they are the most important thing in my life. More than any album. They're where it's at." (2001) (about wife Morleigh and his children)
They're coming to a rock and roll concert and watching television. That says it all (on ZooTV, 1992)
There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band. It was that or whoring ourselves to death
I was the guy who borrowed the guitar for the first rehearsal. I borrowed the guitar for the first gig as well. I was in charge, I was the leader of this band for two days. Two days was all I lasted.
If a student with an accordion had come along, I would've played with them ya know...that was where I was at, I was that desperate to play with somebody.
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!
I didn't join a band to be famous. I joined a band to hit things.
The lyrics don't mean shit to be honest, in my opinion. It's all about the drums
You begin to feel like a fish bowl. You get some girls who just stare, never come near, never speak. Weird
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.
I have nightmares of my kids saying, Did you really look like that? Did you really make that shit? I want to make good enough records for them to be able to say I'm OK
I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool
I am a Christian and not ashamed of that. But trying to explain my beliefs, our beliefs, takes away from it. I have more in common with somebody who doesn't believe at all than I do with most Christians. I don't mind saying that
All the best songs are co-written by God, you know!
America is not just a country; it's an idea. You have to defend the idea as well as the country, and that idea is being attacked
Fear is the opposite of faith
I want to play the guitar very badly, and I do play the guitar very badly
I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after
I'm very secure with the fact that I'm not black. I'm white, pink and rosy. But I've got soul
I've had the best life that a man's ever had: I don't just mean with U2, I mean with my family and even my father, whose loss I feel every day
Imagine if a third of the kids at your local primary school were AIDS orphans. That's a reality in Africa where the parents of 13 million children have been killed by AIDS
In some ways, success is a lot easier to achieve than relevance. Being 40, we have to come up with extra reasons for people to put us on the radio
It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth
Overcoming my dad telling me I would never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, cause I don't have a dog
The vanity of the artist is in believing that what they are discovering might be valuable to other people
The truth is when that singer is saying something that comes from right down within him, and it affects you right down within you. That's when you start talking about great music, as distinct from nice music
This is the song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealin' it back (At a live performance of "Helter Skelter")
U2 is about the impossible. Politics is the art of the possible. They're very different, and I'm resigned to that now
We used to look at bands who could play better and look better, and we used to say, 'They have everything but it. We had nothing but it
We want to turn our song into a prayer and our prayer is that we, they, we do not become a monster in order to defeat a monster. That's our prayer (Vertigo Tour Milan)
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.
When I was a kid in Dublin, I watched in awe as America put a man on the moon. We thought, you know, this is mad. Nothing is impossible in America. In America, they can do anything over there.
He's a poet. He's a philosopher. And last night, I think I saw him walking on water. (Mick Jagger about Bono)
All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
A lot of photographers feel their art is to discover who you are. Anton is about who you might be.
Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month
Passengers was a result of that collaboration (with brian Eno). A soundtrack album without a movie.
With that tour, I feel we really pushed ourselves to the limit. I know that we regained a lot of critical credibility; that's nice but to be honest that wasn't something that I really thought about very much
It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between (U2 recording in Sun Studio, 1989)
We believe in trash, we believe in kitsch and that's what we're up to at the
moment
moment
Achtung Baby is definitely a reaction to the myth of U2. We never really had any control
over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit...but there's very little
resemblance to the actual personalities of the band
over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit...but there's very little
resemblance to the actual personalities of the band
He's far funnier, takes himself far less seriously than most people think. He's wild, he's not reserved. None of the clichés that spring to mind when you think of most peoples' perception of him
I can't even say the bloody word. Achtung Baby
Rock 'n' roll is a term that's been heavily abused. It's not something you can buy in a record shop. It's an attitude
¿Donde esta Larry? El siempre huye de mí
Wow, tiene un gran guitarrista en tu banda. Dale mis recuerdos a The Hedge
Pasar tiempo con Bono fue como comer en un tren, sientes que te estas moviendo, yendo a algún lugar. Bono tiene el alma de un antiguo poeta y tu tienes que tener cuidado alrededor de él. El puede rugir mientras la tierra se mueve
Seguro que no gastan su dinero en ropas
No puedes amar a nadie sin amarte a ti mismo. Y conjeturo que probablemente no puedas odiar a nadie sin odiarte a ti mismo… Purificarse y misericordia - la misericordia es el resultado del amor, pero el amor exige que intentes ver las cosas desde el punto de vista de la otra persona
Hay un amor entre los miembros de esta banda que es más profundo que cualquier otra cosa entre nosotros
Cuando digo a la gente “me voy de vacaciones con Bono” me miran un poco divertidos, pero ha funcionado realmente bien. Compramos (dos casas y tierras en Eze, sur de Francia) en 1992, quedaba al menos otro año antes de que una de las casas fuera habitable y pasamos mucho tiempo allí durante 1994. Ése fue nuestro verano del amor, como Bono lo llama
Entrevistador: “¿Cuál es tu más preciada posesión”; Adam: “Mi pito!”
El es un desenfrenado dios del sexo con un gran ego
Citas Famosas de U2: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.
