Quotes by Larry Mullen, Jr. - Page 1

I joined a band to hit things.
Larry Mullen, Jr. / Musician
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If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
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Ifs
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It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
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Drummer
Matter
Song
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Hits
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
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Cannes
Premiere
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I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.
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Looks
Thinking
Three
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
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Play
Thinking
Years
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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Core
Reputation
Streak
Dangerously
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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
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Interesting
Records
Self
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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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Acting
Musician
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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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Journey
Lucky
Thinking
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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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Casting
Qualified
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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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Careers
Giving
Skills
Thinking
Although
Jump
Skill
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In the music world, ageism 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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Ageism
Form
Youth
Youth Culture
Art Age Music
Art Form
Certain Age
Issue
Music World
Requires
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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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Acting
Believe
Creative
Painting
Relevance
Music Believe Me
Picture
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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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Acting
Scare
Thinking
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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.
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Attachment
Music Business
Very Deep
Business Music Your
Invested
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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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Comfort
Comfort Zone
Standing
Zone
Cliff
Deciding
Edge
Jump
Outside
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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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Becoming
Believable
Fit
Issues
Rocks
Stars
Vice Versa
Issue
Rock Stars
Versa
Vice
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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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Car
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Play
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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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Awards
Mtv
Winning
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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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Kids
Bills
College
Pacific
Paid
Stars
Tough Life
Life End Of The Day Day
Life Enough Day
End Of The Day
Island
Pop Star
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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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Art
Age
Issues
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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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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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Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.
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Blair
Excuse
Intelligent
Pals
Bono
Bush
Criminal
No Excuse
George
George Bush
Tony
Tony Blair
Tried
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Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.
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Involved
Spotify
Apple
Artists
Companies
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Service
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Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.
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Jobs
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Guitar
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We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.
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Father
Mean
Mother
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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
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Cutting
Cutting Edge
Engineers
Lifetime
Mean People
Producers
Relentless
Breaking
Work History People
Challenged
Edge
Passed
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