The Edge Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: August 8, 1961

Topics

MusicGreatDownRockBarriersOut

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

John Hench

NameAmericanNeverHimPrimeBeen

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

Matthew Williamson

GreatAmazingMeMuseumInspiration

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

BelieveChoiceUnionFacingEuropean

I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I'd also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people, and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict.

Michael Franti

LifeMusicWarPeopleConflictYear

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

Michael Apted

GoodTimeStartYouPlaceWant

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

Simon Conway Morris

EyeSolutionCameraClearlyAncient

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Tommy Thompson

RoadsBuildFollowJobs

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

Robert Winston

WorkHealthPeopleWorldLearnYou

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Logan Marshall-Green

PeopleThinkFindPlayTrueMore

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

Josef Albers

ArtTrainingSchoolYouRoyalSee

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Jonathan Davis

MusicFeelYouIndustryMakeLike

Everything comes to an end.

Dickey Betts

EndEverything

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