Quotes About U2

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

The guys in U2, whom I work with a lot, have a very open political agenda.

Terry didn't really do deference around famous people. I was once in a position, in Dublin, to introduce him to Bono from U2, explaining, as I did so, that Bono owned the hotel we were standing in. 'Ah, good,' Terry said to Bono. 'Can you get me a milkshake?' Which he did.

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

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

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.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

We love U2, adore their music, just blown away by who they are as artists. They just seem like really good people.

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

Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.

Bono, the lead singer of U2, said: "The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with…. But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in…straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally…. I am just in awe of that…. It's the thing that makes me a believer.

Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album.

U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it.

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.

Andrew Rowen would end up in three U2 songs, "Running to Stand Still," as well as "Bad" and "Raised by Wolves.

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

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

in New Jersey this evening, an Irish band called U2 who were on the cover of Time magazine last week.

My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.'