"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."

-- Larry Mullen, Jr.

#Jobs Quotes #Character Quotes #Play Quotes

“When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.”
“I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.”
“Learn everything you know in all keys.”
“Tools have their own integrity ...”
“Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."”
“In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary”
“I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now”
“You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

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