Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
BONOBut more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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