“So it goes, shot by shot and line by line through a 140-minute concert. And no one raises an eyebrow, no one thinks it's unusual. The people in this room will work all night and not hesitate to argue over a camera angle or guitar mix until the sun returns to the Sydney sky.” WorkEditingSydneyConcert Book:U2 at the End of the World Source: U2 at the End of the World
“During their time off, Larry fell victim to the curse that hits many people when they move to New York; because it is possible in Manhattan to work all the time, that's what he did.” WorkNew York Author:Bill Flanagan
“Bono’s pet phrase for the Zoo philosophy has been judo, jujitsu: using your enemy’s strength against him. It’s how the band reconciled their embrace of all the tools-commercialism, glamour, stardom, ostentation-to which U2’s music and beliefs had previously stood in opposition. Art students might suss this stuff by sophomore year, but U2 are artists by instinct, not training. It took them a decade to figure it out.” ArtBandJudo Book:U2 at the End of the World Source: U2 at the End of the World
“Both Bellcore (the Bell Telephone research company in Livingstone, New Jersey) and Philips (the company that owns Polygram, U2’s label) have set up crude working prototypes of home music delivery systems by hooking up recordable CD players to fiber-optic telephone lines.” HomeMusicAudio Book:U2 at the End of the World Source: U2 at the End of the World
“On Achtung Baby U2 took conventional tracks and radicalized them; on this material U2 is taking radical tracks and covering them with a veneer of convention.” AlbumsSongs Book:U2 at the End of the World Source: U2 at the End of the World