Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Claytonis an English-born Irish musician best known as the bass guitarist of the Irish rock band U2. He has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "Gloria", "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". He has worked on several solo projects...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth13 March 1960
CountryIreland
Mix a conviction with a man and...
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
There is no future for a people who deny their past.
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.