Quotes by The Edge - Page 1

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.
The Edge / Musician
Albums
Finished
Released
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
The Edge / Musician
Steps
Anonymous
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Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.
The Edge / Musician
Albums
Easy
Months
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Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.
The Edge / Musician
Panthers
Rabbits
Smarter
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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
The Edge / Musician
Subjective
Definition
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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
The Edge / Musician
Curiosity
Music Me New
Music Me Curiosity
Compels
Fresh
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First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.
The Edge / Musician
First Love
Lasts
Love Is
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Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.
The Edge / Musician
Dream
Clarity
Vision
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Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.
The Edge / Musician
Excruciating
Jamming
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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.
The Edge / Musician
Heart
Needs
Song
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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.
The Edge / Musician
Careers
Rock And Roll
Rocks
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You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.
The Edge / Musician
Force
Rock And Roll
Very
Career
Hobby
Essential
Rock
See
Something
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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.
The Edge / Musician
Book
Perfect
Years
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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.
The Edge / Musician
Art
Pieces
Thinking
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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.
The Edge / Musician
Globalization
Good Things
International
Music Community
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Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
The Edge / Musician
Running
Mean
Olympics
Pointless
Thinking
Up And Down
Fast
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For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.
The Edge / Musician
Looking Back
Present Moment
Moment Me Looking
Move Forward
Tightrope
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Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.
The Edge / Musician
Achieve
Chairman
Founding
Vulnerable
Anonymous
Drive
Bono
Member
Wants
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For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
The Edge / Musician
Awkward
Guessing
Insecure
Experience Childhood Me
Corresponded
Phase
Rock Band
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Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.
The Edge / Musician
Barriers
Basically
Breaks
Cultural
Linguistic
Rock
Succeeds
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A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
The Edge / Musician
Guitar
Instruments
Piano
Range
Sound
Broader
Trumpet
Pianos
Possibilities
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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, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
The Edge / Musician
Argument
Jazz
New Orleans
Streets
Funerals
European
Roll
Forerunner
Mix
Orleans
Rhythms
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Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.
The Edge / Musician
Limitless
Mess
Somewhere
Echo
Parts
Taking
Weirdly
Winds
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Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.
The Edge / Musician
Band
Easier
Success Time Best
Success Best Time
Each Time
Formed
Great Songs
Record
Requires
Search
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The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
The Edge / Musician
Dishonesty
Easy
Expected
Fans
Inherent
Popularity
Trying
Work Yourself Your
Accept
Cop-Out
Create
In The End
Popular
Pandering
Rather
Start
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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 other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.
The Edge / Musician
Bullshit
People
Thinking
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