In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOReligion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
More Bono Quotes
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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