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Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common

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It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful

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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned — I'm Irish.

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"We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it".

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I am saying we are great. I'm not saying I'm great. There's a difference...

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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

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We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance.

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What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.

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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

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We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.

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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.

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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was "Jumpin' Jack Flash." It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.

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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute."
Well, this is the time for bold measures.

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Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

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The thing about The Dubliners is — line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 — we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.

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